Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: short term rental policies

[Katie Henry (katie-henry]

Sharon Villines wrote:
But whatever you do, and since you have been around for 20 years you know this, 
make provisions for an _onsite_ host for anyone staying anywhere on the 
property. Things happen. Emergencies come up. Someone has to take 
responsibility for “unknowns”. Someone needs to know the name of the person who 
is now dead and hanging over the fence.

If you think Sharon is being melodramatic, this did happen at my former 
community. Not the fence part, but one of our members was spending a month off 
the grid. His brother came to house-sit and died. 

Lessons learned: (1) Keep your list of member next-of-kin contacts up to date, 
and (2) consider having a master key or a copy of the key to each unit and 
think about when and why you might use those keys.

Katie Henry