Customer Rating: Summary: Easy read - Good Information Comment: We have a family cottage and ae having challenges with costs and useage. This book provides solutions that can be easily modified to your families circumstances. Easy read but very good info. Customer Rating: Summary: The Cottage Rules: An Owner's Guide To The Rights & Responsi Comment: WOW! This book is a family saver! Our family ownership of a cottage is similar to one of the sitations described in the book. We were having trouble making decisions, getting agreement, coordinating, getting work done, scheduling etc. This book is beginning to change everything and make owning a cottage with our family enjoyable again. Now we will be able to refer back to the neutral 'rules' to which we all have agreed, rather than getting upset when we don't get our own way!! Plus, the book has given us ideas on things to do and introduces new ways of doing things. Thank you so much Nikki Koski, for writing and publishing this book!!
The Cottage Rules sets out no-nonsense, easy-to-use guidelines for cottage owners who share ownership with others. It deals with everything from succession to laundry. The rules work to prevent conflicts, so that your relationship with your partners can be either as close or as distant as you desire.
This book will show you how to manage your cottage like a business, which in turn frees your time and energy to enjoy the cottage. With four cornerstones to the system (meetings, bookings, banking, and work weekends) the rules are easy to implement, flexible and reliable. The Cottage Rules can help you attain your dream of peaceful cottage ownership.
All forms and checklists are included on CD-ROM in MS Word and PDF formats for use on your Windows PC. Forms include:
* Partnership contract * Sample meeting agenda * Log book forms to record events and work completed * Expense tracking forms * Lists for basic pantry items and first-aid kit * List for telephone numbers * Tasks to do when opening and closing a cottage for the season * List of things to do each time you "check out"
