Date:         Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:41:14 -0500
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: cooperative Westy ownership?
Comments: To: Mark Hersh <cmwolfsburg@GMAIL.COM>
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There are rental companies that market themselves as "car share" cooperatives.  Those are of larger scale than what your neighbor seems to be proposing.  My brother and a coworker used to, way back in the fifties, own a commuter car together.  It was in both of their names, and they split all costs.  However, they only drove it for commuting together.  I don't know how they handled liability insurance.  I doubt they carried full coverage, the car was an old Henry-J.  Anyone remember those?  mcneely

---- Mark Hersh <cmwolfsburg@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> So at a neighborhood BBQ tonight, someone  (a neighbor that admires our
> camper) came up to meand said they were thinking of trying to get together
> a small "cooperative" with the purpose of joint ownership of a camper.
> Figuring that they would all pay in for maintenance, cleaning, etc., and
> knowing they would have to come up with some reasonably democratic and fair
> way to allocate time slots.
>
> Seemed like a reasonable enough idea to me to volunteer to put it out to
> the group (because I'm not about to volunteer my camper!).
>
> Anyone have any experience with such a thing, or know of such a thing?   A
> Google search came up with a couple interesting leads, but I thought I'd
> ask the collective Vanagon brain trust.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
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