Cohousing-L Mailing List: dinner guests

[Judy Baxter (BAXTER]

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Does your community have a policy as to whether guests make a
contribution for dinner?  Since we are primarily a community of renters,
we frequently have guests to our weekly meal who are either checking out
the possibility of joining us or are friends of community members.

Sanda and Brian Everette  San Mateo Cooperative Community 
http://www.wordrunner.com/sanda 
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At
Monterey Cohousing, we expect the hosts of friends, relatives, to pay for their 
dinner guests (currently $2.50/adult).  We ask people coming to visit to check
us out or just to see what we're about, to contribute the same. They seem to
feel that is fine oand nominal.  From my point of view, I'd like people who
call and say they'd like to come to dinner to contribute that small amount. I
suppose there *are* semi-public ( I guess thatis what we are) places you can
call and say I'd like to come to dinner, for free, but I can't think of any. 

It is also true that it varies, but we have a fair number of guests, and this
helps keep our costs down.

Judy


Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN

Now planning a Nov. 4 Celebration of 10 years of Cohousing in the Twin Cities
4-6 pm, tours, slide show, entertainment, update on Cohousing in the area,
Questions and Answers.  Option to stay for Takeout Dinner (at cost) and for 7-9
pm. "Sharing" event.  See our website.

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-- e-mail:      baxter [at] epi.umn.edu
15 homes - 7 new townhomes plus 
        8 coop apartments       in the Mansion (a rehab Georgian building)
(built as a retirement home in 1924 -) which also serves as our Common House
coops moved in 1993, townhomes in 1996
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One 3 BR  townhome for sale - see our web page
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 Voice Mail for Monterey Cohousing - 952-930-7554
 web page: http://www.jimn.org/mococo/