Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: CID assessments paying for social events

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

If people buy into your community and do not know it is a cohousing
community, and ALL which that implies, you have a big problem you need to
solve before any more turn over happens. ALL new prospective buyers, whether
by realtor or not need to know what you are about, otherwise your community
will be very short lived. 


Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
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-----Original Message-----
From: OCC11NG [mailto:normangauss [at] charter.net] 
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:47 PM
To: Cohousing-L
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ CID assessments paying for social events

Sharon:

So what you are saying is that if our association presents itself as a
social organization and expects new residents to sign an agreement to
financially support this kind of activity, then we can expect them to pay
all expenses.

Unfortunately, two new units were sold recently by realtors and no
agreements were signed by the new owners acknowledging that they understood 
we were a cohousing association.   All they knew was that we are a simple 
HOA.  I think to suddenly declare "Surprise! You owe us for social expenses"

is not defensible in a court of law.  I think that they can refuse to pay
the surcharge if they want.

Norm Gauss
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ CID assessments paying for social events


>
> On Nov 7, 2005, at 12:33 PM, OCC11NG wrote:
>
>> When an owner agrees to the financial obligations of an ordinary HOA, 
>> there
>> usually is no expectation that social programs will be an integral part 
>> of
>> the experience of living in the development.  Our new owners were not 
>> told
>> of this activity nor the necessity of funding it.  It seems to me that 
>> since
>> there is no expectation that new members are expected to contribute to
>> social programs, there is no reason why they should be held delinquent if
>> they do not pay that portion of the dues allocation to these purposes.
>
> Aren't new members given a copy of your budget before the purchase their 
> units?
>
> Who sets the expectations?
>
> The community should reach agreements on things like this. I would think 
> that if some members do not want to pay for community support items out of

> the budget, they should be funded in another way. But to allow some people

> to say, "Oh, I didn't know about this so I don't have to pay" is not a 
> good way to handle it.
>
> Sharon
> -----
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
>
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