Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Members and rentals (was Short-term Rentals)

[Mary Vallier-Kaplan (marycvk]

We basically run the same way as Mosaic does too with everyone who is
living here more than 90 days encouraged to participate equally  - owners,
renters, domestic partners, adult children, etc. even building the budget
but the Unit Owners Association "ratifies" the budget they come up with to
make it legal.  We are just finishing rewriting our bylaws trying to strip
out as much as we can (we too are incorporated as a condo) that the AG and
the mortgage holders will allow us to do which is not as much as we wished.

Mary
Nubanusit Nieghborhood and Farm


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] 
gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Subject line changed to reflect a tangent...
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:39 PM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > On the whole, at Cornerstone an owner is a member of the community, and
> no
> > ownership = no membership.  At any point in time we have about ten adults
> > living on property who are "tenants" and accordingly not "members".
>
>
> We (Mosaic Commons) have taken what I think is a unique approach to this
> situation which it might be helpful to share.
>
> We have two separate operating organizations:
>
> 1. Our home owners association (Condominium Trust, technically) which is
> pretty much like any other condo association: membership is determined by
> ownership of a unit...no more and no less.  This body is responsible for
> stuff involved with our physical and legal needs: plowing, maintaining
> buildings, insurance, bookkeeping, and other typical, boring condo stuff.
>  This constitutes the majority of a budget, but a tiny minority of what we
> actually DO.
>
> 2. Our cohousing group.  This body is responsible for everything that makes
> us a "community" rather than a "condominium": meetings; work days; social
> events; shared resources like lawn mowers, laundry machines, and common
> house furnishings; conflict resolution; policies about common house usage,
> pets, smoking, quiet hours, etc;
>
> The second group membership has been much discussed and we FINALLY (after,
> no joke, months or maybe even years of discussion) decided on a membership
> policy:
> http://mosaic-commons.org/membership
> Basically, anyone who lives here and participates in the community is a
> member -- ownership status not relevant.
> This body also has "associates", which are people who don't actually live
> here, but participate in the community nonetheless.  Our associate policy
> is still under discussion, but our current version is here:
> http://mosaic-commons.org/associates
>
> The idea is that everyone is engaged on equally footing on the stuff
> relevant to them: home owners on issues relating to their properties;
> community members on issues relating to the community.
>
> Time will tell how this works out, but I'm pretty happy with it so far.
>  But then, I'm in BOTH groups as a resident/owner...our non-resident
> owners, or non-owner residents, might feel differently.
>
> Diana
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