Rules & Guidelines for the Coop:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

RULES, FEES, & GUEST FEES.
GUIDELINES FOR PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE.
ABOUT GUEST VISITS.
ABOUT OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS.
HOUSE CHORES (SHOVELING & CLEANUP).

^{THE RULES & FEES

Guest fees for the first 6 nights per guest:
$30/nt (single guest).
$35/nt (couples).
Guest fees after guest stays 6 nights total:
$50/nt (single guest).
$55/nt (couples).
Out-of-state guests stay free once-- up to 9 days.

^{(However
donations from such guests are encouraged & appreciated.)}

After one visit, out-of-state guests must pay standard guest fees.
Hosts must ensure that their guests sign the guest register & pay before
leaving.
Members have priority over guests for beds. Always.
Guests may not stay at the cabin without a host member in attendance.
Unused guest & membership fees will be refunded to members.
You can use the cabin on weekdays but utilities are budgeted for mostly
weekend warrior use. Therefore the cabin may not be used as a primary or
temporary residence.^{Children staying in their parents' bedroom may
stay free.}

^{GUIDELINES FOR
PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE}

^{Clean up after yourself.
Take turns with chores like shoveling, etc.
If you’re sleeping alone, please take a twin bed and leave the double
beds for the couples. If you don't have kids, please leave the
multi-bed bedrooms for families.
Don't put guests into beds unless you're SURE that no more members are
coming (i.e. after about midnight).
Don't ALWAYS grab the best bedroom just because YOUR job ends at noon.
Etc.}
^{Don't store your things in the bedrooms when you're not staying there
otherwise the people using the bedrooms won't have enough closet &
drawer space. More importantly, nobody wants to be woken up by people
who stored their stuff in a bedroom. Box or bag your things and stash
them someplace out of the way like a hall closet, bathroom closet, or in the garage.}

^{GUEST VISITS}

^{Guests are welcome, but as a general guideline, please limit yourself to
two guests per weekend. But more importantly, strive to only bring guests if
you think that it won’t inconvenience the other members. Different members
have different thoughts about what is overcrowded so please check around
before inviting guests but assume this as a conservative baseline: Most
members will feel that the cabin is inconveniently overcrowded if we run out
of beds for everyone.}
^{OUT OF TOWN GUESTS/RELATIVES}
^{The original reason for having relatives and out-of-town guests stay for
free was that many of the cabin members were from the East Coast and wanted to
entice their East Coast friends and relatives to buy $600 tickets to fly PAST
the ROCKIES to ski the Sierra. For southern Californians, it’s better
to cop a one-hour, $69 round-trip flight to Tahoe than it is to drive 6 hours
to Mammoth and ski with the mobs. Therefore California/Nevada guests have to
pay guest fees. Guests from other places can still stay for free once (up to 9
days) before having to pay standard guest fees. To help make it fairer for
native Californians, relatives can also stay free once, up to 9 days before
having to pay standard guest fees.}

^{HOUSE CHORES}

MAID SERVICE:

^{We’ll have maid service as
needed-- usually once every few weeks. But
the more that we do to straighten up after ourselves, the more time the maid
will have to do the dirty work like scrubbing the bathrooms and kitchen.
The maid won't be in every week, so please clean up after yourself to be
courteous to others.}

SHOVELING: ^{The driveway will be professionally cleared,
and the front porch is covered, so we shouldn't have to do much shoveling.
However, we will need to shovel:}

^{1) I}^{n front of the garbage shed at
the end of the driveway.}
^{2) I}^{mmediately in front of the garage
door.}
^{3) The front steps and porch.}
^{4) The upstairs deck (so that it doesn't
collapse from the weight).}
^{If you shovel snow when it first falls or when
you first walk or drive on it, it's easy to shovel. If you walk or drive
on it, and let it freeze up, it turns to ice which is dangerous, and
impossible to hack off. So if you have to trample the snow, please
shovel it right away. One lazy person can create a dangerous mess for
everyone else for many months.}}