Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common HOuse fees

[Kay Argyle (argyle]

> 1.  Do members pay for use of guest rooms for their own personal guests?
> If so, how much?

A couple of households on tight budgets indicated that, if there was a
charge, guests would be sleeping on their couch after all, negating the
purpose of the guest room.

We have 26 households.  Each household gets seven days free annually. 
Additional days must be paid for (I don't remember what the fee was set at.
 $15/night? $25?).  Reservations are first-come first-served except around
major holidays.

The common house was designed with two guest rooms.  When it was decided
the space designed for exercise equipment wasn't working well, one room got
taken over as an exercise room.

The remaining room is so beastly hot for half the year (upstairs, southwest
exposure) that most people haven't been willing to inflict it on their
guests.  We are looking into a swamp cooler for the common house.

> 2.  Are guest rooms available for non-member guests?  If so, at what
cost?

Guests must be sponsored by a member.  We didn't put restrictions on how
well (or whether) they needed to know each other.

> 3.  Do you allow outside groups to rent space ( e.g., dining room,
kitchen,
> meeting room)?  If so, how do you charge?

No.

> 4.  Is there a charge when members reserve common house space for a
private
> purpose?  If so, do you make a distinction between a member hosting a
> private party, for example, and a member teaching a course for which a
fee
> is paid?

We discourage "closed" events to which the community is not invited. 
Several members have hosted events for their coworkers or students, or in
one case a fund raiser, but they have issued open invitations to the
community to attend as well.

One member pays a monthly fee for private use of a room in our workshop.

Kay
Wasatch Commons
Salt Lake