Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: renter and resale policies

[Coreen Plewa (plewac]

Thank you for your response.
Coreen at ElderGrace

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Sent: Martes, 30 de Mayo de 2006 01:46 p.m.
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ renter and resale policies

We are a cohousing community of 48 households, with a number of  
nonparticipating members and renters. The owners of the rental units do not
participate 
regularly in meetings and the renters are not allowed to vote for  their
owners 
even if the owner wants them to. The owners pay the usual COA dues  for
their 
unit so renters are allowed to participate in all ways with the  community 
except voting. Our community has no work requirement at this time  and some 
members and renters moved in with the assumption that they did not have  to
do 
anything and the majority of the renters do not participate in much  (we
have 5 
full time rental units with 8 occupants and others (4 that I can  think of) 
that are rented for part of the year). There will be at least 2  more units
that 
will be fulltime rental units starting this summer. There is no  cap on the 
number of units that may be rented in the community (What is the cap  that
other 
cohousing communities have?)
 
We have had some resales already in our year and a half of living here (one

unit has turned over twice, four others have resold, two more will probably

be resold in the next year). We are grapling with how to integrate new
members  
and also what we can do to make sure resales and renters are interested in  
participating in cohousing. This was a developer driven community and the
push  
to sell units quickly made for some of the difficulties we are experiencing 
now  in my estimation. Can we require prospectives to attend a meeting and  
meal before they make a decision about renting or buying? Can we require
people 
to be on a team or contribute in some way to our community? What do other  
communities do?
 
Gina  Kruse
Stone Curves Cohousing
136 E. Limberlost Dr. #101
Tucson, AZ  85705
(520) 327-1336 (home)
(520) 661-4742  (cell)
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