Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: builder contracts

[balaji (balaji]

I completely agree with John.  If any of you have a contract, please do
consider sharing it -- if not on this list, then to those of us who have
an interest.  We would really like to see models.  They will help us shape
our own ideas.  We should not have to re-invent the wheel every time a
cohousing community is built.

Thanks, in advance, to those who oblige!

Charles W. Nuckolls
Utah Valley Commons
www.utahvalleycommons.com


>
> I'm sure it is true that each contract is unique in many respects. We
> haven't even gotten there in our process so I'm guessing here. But I would
> suspect that it would be valuable to see examples of what is covered in
> such
> contracts and at what depth. As you abstract away the differences among
> the
> examples, I suspect patterns begin to emerge. That is undoubtedly how
> contractors and builders operate efficiently--reuse existing pattern
> and/or
> borrow it from someone else.
>
> Cohousing US could really assist the forming and construction processes by
> collecting a library of such documents and then spending some time looking
> for the patterns they share. Differences among states are to be expected
> but
> that, in itself, is useful information.
>
> In the mean time, you can try the AIA site that addresses
> documents<http://www.aia.org/docs_synopses>.
> On a detailed page, there is a description of the A-series
> documents<http://www.aia.org/docs_series_a>that are contract forms for
> contracts between owner and contractor for many
> different circumstances. That page just contains descriptions of the
> documents. They want to sell you the document forms for about $10 each.
> The
> synopses are fairly explicit so you shouldn't need to purchase many of the
> forms to get a useful one. The forms are MS Word documents but you could
> use
> OpenOffice (or NeoOffice on Mac OS X) just as well. I can't attest to the
> quality since I haven't seen or used them. However, they may provide
> guidance.
>
> Apologies if I have misunderstood your question.
>
> John Faust
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Larry Miller <larry.miller [at] charter.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I second Sharon's response. Our contract was more like a book.
>>
>> On Jul 4, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Francoise Paradis wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone have a contract with a builder they would be willing to
>> > share for us to review?  We want to make sure we have all the bases
>> > covered before we sign one.
>>
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