Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Taxe Exempt Expenses & the Idea of Cohousing Expenses

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

Our situation is somewhat unique and therefore not really related to  
your advice.  We already discussed this and I did offer to let you  
look at our budgets if you are really interested.

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On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Sharon Villines  
<sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:09 PM, Ellen Keyne Seebacher wrote:
>
> > state has
> > strict rules about what we can charge affordable-unit buyers for
> > condo fees, and the town has forbidden us (as a condition of our
> > building permit) to require "cohousing" fees from owners who don't
> > want to participate.
>
> But do you have to think of them as "cohousing' vs "condo' fees. We
> have labels that the treasurer and accountant use on forms that we
> don't use otherwise. They don't define how we think or talk about of
> our expenses in the community.
>
> We have a long list of categories of cohousing expenses. 3,5,8, and 9
> may be the tax or legally related categories, in your case the
> mandatory fees, but they are all cohousing fees.
>
> My concern is that we not come to consider cohousing only to be the
> social aspects of cohousing. Otherwise we could just be a neighborhood
> association or a food and babysitting club.
>
> Cohousing is "cooperative housing."
>
> If anything, the facilities maintenance part of the fees should be
> called cohousing, not the activities part.
>
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> "Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you
> everywhere."  Albert Einstein
>
>
>
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