Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Car Sharing

[Scott Nelson Windels (scott]

Hi Anita -

We are car sharing a truck and car of one of the residents of our 
community.  Basically they owned the truck before we formed - but it's a 
useful vehicle so everyone was using it fairly often.  We just have a 
notebook now and everyone marks their mileage in the truck or car  when 
using it (typically we check in before using it).  Then they tally up 
the mileage every once and a while and we reimburse them federal mileage 
rate, subtracting any gas we put into the truck.

The thing to look out for here is insurance.  Technically everyone in 
our cohousing group owns a car or motorcycle - so we're all covered by 
our own insurance, but you may want to make sure that is case or check 
out how to do that on the up and up.

I think overall ZipCar is cheaper and we have an account there - but 
nothing beats having the option for a car parked right out front.

We have 9 adults, 2 kids and 3 dogs and we're getting by with 7 cars and 
one motorcycle currently.  A lot less than the average Californian 
family usually does - but hopefully we'll get even better over time.   =)


thx
Scott


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> Hello from newly formed Newberry Place. Are there any cohousing groups that are 
> sharing vehicles(cars)? If so, we would like details about how the program was 
> set up, challenges, compensation, etc.
> thanks in advance
> Anita Oomkes
> Newberry Place cohousing
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