Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Collecting documents for use by communities

[Marya S. Tipton (sundog]

Hello, all,

Thanks to all of you for your input on cohousing/HOA document broiler
plates. It looks as though we're heading for a condominium thing because,
for reasons I don't know how to explain, it works better for our road issue.
We have an access road that is nearly a mile long and we're hoping they
won't make us take it up to township specs ($$$). We are up before the
zoning board tonight. Pray for us!

Peace,

Marya Tipton
Hundredfold Farm
Orrtanna, PA
A Place to Grow
Visit our website at http://users.desupernet.com/rhubarb

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>From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous [at] msn.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
>Subject: Collecting documents for use by communities
>Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2000, 5:05 PM
>

> Rowena asked: I thought the Cohousing Network was collecting these documents
> to make them
> available on line.   TCHN people - where are you?
>
> There are several documents available from the Intentional Communities
> Resources pages at http://www.infoteam.com/nonprofit/nica/resource.html
> Click the legal folder, then the sample documents folder. I would be
> delighted to add more. I will be doing major update work to this resource
> this summer and so can add  lots of more documents. I even have a scanner,
> although it is unlikely I would be willing to spend the time to scan in HUGE
> boilerplate HOA  docs. If you send them to me as email attachments (word
> will work, but I can open most other formats) I'd be glad to make them into
> HTML.
>
> It seems unclear to me  how much energy there is for the actual cohousing
> website itself, the current  web master has left and I have not heard
> anything about a replacement effort. I might get more info this weekend
> from another member of the web board.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org
> [mailto:cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org]On Behalf Of RowenaHC [at] cs.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 4:49 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Docs for Homeowners Association
>
>
> In a message dated 3/7/00 1:00:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> PattyMara [at] aol.com
> writes:
>
> << Our HOA structure and by-laws are strictly boiler room, friendly to the
>  suits, legal documents that are generic to condos across the state.  Yawn.
>
>  We were encouraged to do it this way by our lawyer in order to not raise
> any
>  eyebrows from the bank.   >>
>
> We found that banks, etc. had no objection to the coho friendly language we
> put in  - goals for living, consensus voting, right of first refusal, etc, -
> so long as there was a bottom line which said that if all this stuff fails
> we
> can fall back on a vote and if we can't find a buyer the seller has teh
> right
> to put the unit on the open market.     I do think it is important to get
> the
> coho stuff in - the appropriate balance between the obligations of the
> "Managing Board" and that of the "entire community."   One useful purpose it
> serves is to have the group focus on how these things will work when you are
> dealing with real money, maintenance, bills, etc.
>
> I thought the Cohousing Network was collecting these documents to make them
> available on line.   TCHN people - where are you?
>
> Rowena
> Cambridge Coho
>
>