Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Who is providing workshops on concensus in cohousing?

[Christian Stalberg (planning]

   Laird Schaub is good. Others can be found at
   http://www.ic.org/process.php
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Richart Keller [mailto:richart.keller [at] gmail.com]
   Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 6:26 PM
   To: 'Cohousing-L'
   Subject: [C-L]_ Who is providing workshops on concensus in cohousing?
   Am wondering who is doing workshops to help forming cohousing
   communities learn to use concensus?
   Also, who is doing workshops on concensus for existing communities?
   (Other than the rich variety of assistance available at the CohoUS
   national
   conference...)
   Rick
   Richart Keller, AICP
   Pioneer Valley Cohousing
   120 Pulpit Hill Road #25
   Amherst, MA 01002
   413-835-0011
   401 486-2677 (cell)
   (richart.keller [at] gmail.com)
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Thomas Lofft [mailto:tlofft [at] hotmail.com]
   Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 3:05 PM
   To: Cohousing Network-L
   Subject: [C-L]_ Property Taxes on Common Property
   In MD, all communities owning common property in the name of the
   Community
   Association are entitled to have the common property exempt from
   assessment
   and taxation in as much as the common property is never sold or
   purchased
   individually by any Seller or Purchaser of a home. The value of the
   community property is imputed as being a part of the value of the
   individual
   residences being sold and purchased by private parties.
   If the common use property is retained in the private name of the
   developer
   or a partnership or corporation that is not a registered
   Community/Homeowners' Association, then it continues to be assessed and
   taxed as private property.
   For example, if the community were to rent a home from a private owner
   and
   use the rented property as a common use property, the owner would have
   to
   pay local government and state property taxes.
   In any case, all expenses of the Community Association are budgeted for
   on
   an annual basis. The Community Association assessments are then levied
   against each individual property owner and payable as a monthly
   assessment.
   Tom Lofft
   Liberty Village, MD
   Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:34:56 -0600
   From: "Shari Hirst" <sharihirst13 [at] gmail.com>
   Subject: [C-L]_ Property Taxes on Common Property
   To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
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   ElderGrace in Santa Fe, NM, is wondering how other CoHousing
   communities
   handle property taxes on their Common buildings. Do you pay property
   taxes
   on Common buildings and how are they collected? Does your County divide
   it
   and charge each member for their share or does your County charge your
   HOA a
   separate bill? Thank you for your information.
   Shari Hirst
   sharihirst13 [at] gmail.com
   ElderGrace CoHousing
   Santa Fe, NM 87507
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