Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Guest rooms fees

[Berrins (Berrins]

In a message dated 3/10/04 2:19:30 PM, fholson [at] cohousing.org writes:

<< For those of you who have guest rooms in your common house, do you charge
money for guests to use them? If so, how much?

Also, does what you charge vary depending if someone is a family member,
close friend, itinerant cohousing enthusiast or just someone looking for a
place to stay the night?

Finally, do you have a standard on how long someone can stay? 

Thanks for your ideas >>

We used to charge $10 a night until we learned that any income the 
association derives from pretty much anything is subject to a lot of taxes.  
There were 
also some kind of hotel room laws/fees or something involved once money 
changed hands.  

This included charging for any public event and income derived from a group 
yard sale.  Any income (other than condo fees) that goes into our coffers has 
to be reported and is taxable.  So the community doesn't charge anything for 
public events and for the guest rooms.   

As far as length of stay, I'm not sure how long is too long.  We have two 
guest rooms and if two different parties want rooms, each can get one room.  
We've never had people stay for extended periods of time, so kicking someone 
out 
hasn't come up yet.  I would guess that a week is a good limit.  The rooms are 
used fairly regularly but are mostly used on weekends.  Limiting signups to a 
week would keep rooms open for the next weekend.  I think, however, we may 
have a two-week rule:  rooms not signed up for in the next two weeks are fair 
game.

Thats about it!

Roger Berman
Pathways Cohousing
Northampton, MA
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