Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: heiring homes for inappropriate purposes

[Dave & Diane (coho]

Hi Ruth,
Since you offered to allow us to re-title your thread, I have called it 
"heiring homes for inappropriate purposes."

> [C-L]_ 'nother thread: heiring homes [feel free to re-title
>         this    thread]

We will be a condominium association and here are some of the things we 
are looking into:

o  In section 15.1 (Renting), the maximum absentee ownership is not 
hard-wired at 30%.  Rather, it is a figure to be set by the 
Association, initially set at 30%.

	o  An owner cannot carry out an absentee rental of more than a year, 
whether to a single tenant or a series of tenants, without the approval 
of the Association for each year beyond the first.

This is will be a very emotional topic to address, because parents 
naturally want to be able to leave property to their offspring. 
However, if the use of the property conflicts with the stated 
objectives of the group, you will no longer have a cohousing community 
after a period of time if everyone does this. What you as a group are 
able to do about this will depend on how you are organized and what 
powers you have in your bylaws and master deed.

Good luck, and let us know how things work out!

--Diane(:^]

DIANE SIMPSON--MARKETING FACILITATOR
JP COHOUSING  617-524-6614
P.O. BOX 420 BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS
HTTP://WWW.JPCOHOUSING.ORG

On Friday, February 11, 2005, at 06:16 AM, Ruth J . Hirsch wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:40:02 EST
> From: HeidiNYS [at] aol.com
> Subject: [C-L]_ 'nother thread: heiring homes [feel free to re-title
>         this    thread]
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org

> We are wondering if you have worked out a way to address the situation 
> of
> Co-Ho homes being inherited by wonderful folks who'd use the home for
> weekends/vacations/rentals. At this time, there are three households 
> who have a plan in place to leave their home to grown offspring who'd 
> not live here full time, ie use for own vacations/rental income.
> We've recently grown from 12 households to fifteen, our max is perhaps 
> 18, so we are a fairly small community. We'd be concerned about losing 
> involved, active households for many, many reasons.