Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: renters policies

[Sharon Villines (sharonvillines]

> To encourage communal laundry use, we had wanted to keep laundry fees low.
> So, we had figured that our monthly condo fees would cover machine repairs
> and the laundry fees would cover fuel use only.  Last I remember, we were
> charging about 10 cents a load!  So in a real way, my condo fees are paying
> for someone else's renter depreciating our machines.  And of course, I do
> not have the financial gain that the "landlord" gets.

But isn't the landlord paying condo fees too. Fees are usually assessed per
unit, regardless of who is living in the unit.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington, DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

Where we have one large unit left and completion is set for Sep 15.