Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Signed waiver or agreement for using the common house.

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Sep 4, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Stacia Leech and Gary kent wrote:

> We are wondering if other communities have required common house users
> to sign some kind of waiver or indemnity form?

> Examples might be a yoga class where the instructor is not a member, 
> the
> participants would be members and would be paying the instructor a fee.
> Or might be an watercolour painting class say, again the instructor
> being paid would be a non member.

We don't use waivers, but we also do not rent the commonhouse or allow 
uses other than those hosted by a member. Events are usually restricted 
to those that are not publicly advertised. The hosting member is 
responsible for their visitors.

Occasionally we have had larger community events but not classes. I 
think once we had CPR classes. Recently a local home daycare group had 
children here when the regular sitter was ill but that was probably the 
only time this will happen. it was overload for other parents and kids.

In general, our commonhouse is used enough that we don't want to give 
it up on a regular basis or to get embroiled in legal issues. And there 
are other community resources around. I understand that in some smaller 
towns, the commonhouse may be the only meeting place in the area so it 
is often used by nonresidents. That is not the case with us.

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