Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Dues and other expenses

[Chuck Harrison (cfharr]

Here are the gory details from our condo declarations:








*Common Expense Liability: a weighted formula which allocates 50% of
theliability equally among Units and 50% based on relative area of Units,
with finished spacecalculated at 100% percent of the actual area, except
the areas of the finished loftsaccessible by full stairs calculated at 70%
of actual area, the areas of the finished loftsaccessible by ladder or
ladder stair calculated at 50% of actual area and the unfinished atticand
basement areas that are full head height and have windows and roughed in
utilities at60% of actual area and the other unfinished attic, basement and
greenhouse areas calculatedat 30% of actual area.*

We have to recompute the assessments when somebody remodels or expands
their unit.

We have 23 units, mostly in duplexes, a Common House, and shop. City water
and sewer service is billed from a common meter for the whole community (no
individual unit meters), and this is about 30% of our operating budget.
There have been discussions about fairness on that, but no action. (On this
topic, Ken at Sunward Cohousing has shared an excellent document on water
submetering to this list -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14kO0ncu6-G0W_qJKJqsjxXT9xYAotIWSXGhqTK1aF0c/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ltw00qgb2rqd
)

We have a coop group that is funding the installation of EV charging
equipment for our outdoor parking area.

Chuck Harrison
Duwamish Cohousing
Seattle WA


On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 11:50 AM Marty Roberts <martyr [at] sonic.net> wrote:

> Wondering if any of you have a different way of charging HOA dues and
> other expenses than just straight by household.
>
> Do you make any accommodations for singles vs. families with 2 wage
> earners?  Or square footage or number of bedrooms or number of people in
> the house using common facilities?
>
> We are taking a look at this.
> Thanks for any info,
> Marty at Two Acre Wood in Sebastopol, CA
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