Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Legal underpinning of Cohousing

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Sarah Wells wrote:

>Recently we passed a participation in lieu of pay agreement but in the
>implementation were challenged by a neighbor new to living here about its
>legality. In response,  we sought legal advice from a well known HOA law firm
>in the area. After reading our CC & Rs and all of our cohousing agreements,
>this firm stated definitively that Cohousing is illegal and we need to just
>hire a management firm to serve our property.

In order to be illegal, your CC & R's would need to violate some
law or regulation.  Did this lawyer say why they thought they were "illegal"?
I'm very skepitical.

Fred

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