Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: New community - help with HOA documents

[drmaryann49 (drmaryann49]

We paid a lawyer to help draft our CC&Rs and By Laws both when we first 
organized and later when we needed to do a revision. 

The second time our team spent some time with the lawyer helping him understand 
a little about our organization structure. Our lawyer for this second version 
was a specialist in HOA documents so we just needed to help him tweek his 
understanding. As a consequence we have 3 official documents (CC&Rs, By Laws, 
drafted by the lawyer, and our Policy/Procedures Manual, maintained and 
regularly updated by us). All three are legally binding with the legalese that 
lays out which document take precedence in the event of discrepancies. 

I think in this case hiring someone who’s familiar with the law and can 
construct documents that the state (and your lenders) will find familiar while 
still leaving open the ability to govern yourselves as a cohousing community is 
money sell spent.

Mary Ann
Manzanita Village where we spent our last work party putting the ground to bed 
for the winter

On Nov 16, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Katy Patton <katy.patton [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello - The good news is, we got approval from the City of Eugene Oregon to
> build Oakleigh Meadow Cohousing.  Our work continues. We need HOA documents
> and I was wondering if anybody has a template / document you would be
> willing to share. I have located Oregon guidelines. There appears to be no
> Administrative Rules on the state website... but... I am sure there is
> Oregon specific details I need to include.  That being said... we have to
> meet Fannie Mae expectations for funding.  So any help would be appreciated
> from any state.  I just need a little direction and seeing what someone
> else has done would be wonderful.
> Thank you.
> Katy
> PS... I skimmed the 188 pages of helpful documents on cohousing.org site
> and they are very helpful, but they are policies for day to day stuff...
> Legal HOA docs is what I am interested in.
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