Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: HOA acting as distributor

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

At Sharingwood we have a number of "clubs" which are defined as
non-community financially supported activities. Some of these clubs formed
in order to provide services such as a community LAN without having to deal
with large group bureaucracy, the club makes the decisions how it wants to
be. We have had a hot tub club, a truck owners coop, a beer making club,
etc. Sometimes, like the lan, the funds are collected as part of the monthly
condo fees, with only club members being billed and a separate line item in
the budget being maintained in the account. Since we are entirely self
audited, we can do stuff like this.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood 
Snohomish County, WA
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Villines [mailto:sharon [at] sharonvillines.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 6:07 AM
To: normangauss [at] charter.net; Developing cohousing - collaborative housing
communities
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ HOA acting as distributor

On Dec 17, 2004, at 11:32 PM, <normangauss [at] charter.net> wrote:

> The business activity would be in the nature of a distributor, that 
> is, acting as an agent buying a package of services to individual 
> households ("Separate Interests") and collecting individually from 
> those households for those services.  This is, in effect, a "Buyer's 
> Club" administered by the HOA.

Large condominiums do often house and facilitate services of all kinds like
dry cleaners in the basement and favored delivery services but the condo
just facilitates the services, doesn't provide it. Members could have a
buyers club but it would be separate from the official HOA business,
although the HOA could raise objections or giver permission for use of
common space (using the kitchen to distribute food).

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

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