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WHOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION NAME_____________________________________________ Our holistic
community home is a vegetarian nonsmoker, rare alcohol using
home. This is a residential holistic home and we provide living space
only. We do not provide personal care, or transportation. You are required to
keep all your agreements and pay your own way cheerfully and responsibly. We
are flexible about rare seafood or poultry preparation, BUT, No red
meats, poultry or seafood are to be stored in the refrigerator.
Immaculate cleanliness expected every day. Do your own dishes
immediately please, plus a tiny bit extra. Immaculate cleanliness every day
plus garden weeding and reasonable work in the garden and house are required.
No pesticide use anywhere. Noise curfew before We are a nonsmoking
household and this is important to all residents. You must be a nonsmoker to
live here. No tobacco of any kind to be held or used on the property, or
within visual sight of the property. Ask friends who smoke to take a walk
so that second hand smoke does not drift into our windows. Also, please do
not burn incense in the common areas or wear heavy perfume. Some people
are allergic to it. The house manager must always have an emergency key
to all rooms and you agree never to change room locks without the written
consent of the manager. Civilized courtesy is always required. You must be
completely responsible and considerate at all times. No drum playing or loud
music after dark, for example. Label your things with your name and date
stored. House expenses must be paid with your next month's rent every month,
please. Protect and insure
your own valuable belongings. We are not responsible for lost or stolen
items. No indoor pets permitted at any time. Guests must keep their
pets at home or in their cars if they visit with their pets - especially
dogs. No exceptions. For safety reasons, no unsupervised children
as guests. You must arrange your own child care for your child visitors. No
dumping child care on others. We have agreed, and ask you to also, not to
play radios or loud electronic music, TV or other noise in the common areas
to preserve and maintain a peaceful environment. Play these in your private
room. Overnight guests, in your own room, are OK for a night or two, but
please inform all of your housemates who they are an how long
they will be here. Longer stays require additional contributions for
utilities. Long stays for guests will require $10 to $20 or more per day for
rent and utilities and must be approved in advance, in writing. Guests are
expected to clean up after themselves and offer chores or garden weeding to
help the household. Anything reasonable will do. Whatever you or your guests
break, you replace or pay for. No house pots, pans, tools or library books to
leave the property at any time. Don't ask. Everything is needed here full
time. Tuition / rent to be paid on the first of the month or sooner. Thirty
days notice is required when moving measured from the first of the following
month. No mid month notice please. Reasonable care of house and
yard is a must, plus one thing you decide you want to do for the house as a
gift chore to help maintain an excellent quality of cleanliness and adult
tidiness. Guests help too- no freeloading. Trash cans are put out to the
street curb Tuesday night. If not done, please do it. It is
understood that the fist 60 days will be a trial period to be sure things
work out -- 12 month minimum
stay or half your deposit for management costs to rent your room is required
($200 deducted from deposit if less than 6 months). No dogs permitted on
the premises. You must take your cats or other pets with you when you move.
Do not leave pets behind for other housemates to care for. A small private
refrigerator in your room will increase rent $10/ month more for extra
electricity. Guns are not allowed on the property. If you own guns store
them elsewhere. Agreed rent /
tuition is $__________ per month. Rent includes $75 toward utilities, except
for the sauna. There will be an additional utilities charge per month
applied to house expenses whenever utilities amount to more than $75 per
person per month. Late rent fee is 15% per month. Two people living in the
same room requires approval in writing and 50% more in rent. Guests can
contribute garden weeding. Each sauna is $5 each for residents and guests. To
move in, first month's rent, last month's rent and a $__________ security
deposit is required, and is refundable if keys are returned, the room walls
and windows are washed, by you, carpets cleaned and safeguard coated, by you
or a $35 cleaning service, and the room returned in the condition it was
received, or better. If all deposits are not paid in full When moving in,
rent will be $50 more per month until all deposits are paid up. Your
security deposit is not to be used toward rent. Any costs like repainting
walls when badly stained or other damages will be deducted, if any. Cable
TV is $10 extra per month. Broadband fast cable Internet access connected to
your room or using our community computer is $25 extra per month. There must
be no porno surfing on the house computer. Sign up and perform weekly house
chores or $10 extra per week. Do not lose your keys. Re-keying will
cost you $95. This agreement acknowledges that the room &
carpet are cleaned. Anything less than an excellent room should be listed
below before signing. Please keep a copy of all receipts for your records.
Extra storage for large amounts requires $1 per day extra. No business is to
be operated out of the house or room unless special arrangements are made in
advance and in writing. No one, or their guests, are to live out of campers
on the street Except for guests, no freeloaders and no free showers.
In rare circumstances, special arrangements for short periods only must
be approved in advance and in writing. All guests must be informed, by you,
of our household agreements. In an unsatisfactory situation, if occupancy is
held over a 30 day period, rent will be triple if rent due is not paid on
time. If control must be taken for the benefit of yourself, a roommate, or
the safety of this household, you hereby will cooperate in a timely manner.
Remaining longer than 30 days will be allowed but only with written
permission. Any portion of rent will be refunded if the room is rented to an
acceptable prospect, if found sooner than the expiration of a 30 day notice
date, and if everyone is able to cooperate to allow an earlier rental.
Usually a full 30 days is needed. Moving to a different room also requires 30
days notice to allow time to find a new housemate. Most serious
vegetarians can save $50 to $100 or more monthly by using the organic garden.
Please cultivate the habit of working in the garden every day and using the
garden produce every day. Prepare soil and plant seeds to keep the produce
abundantly available. Every weed pulled helps. Other food is prepared and stored
separately, unless you decide to pot luck with others. Food left on the
dining room table is up for grabs. Put items you want to share there. No
dumpster diving for discarded food at markets is permitted on the property
for sanitary reasons. Do not store food that has been thrown away in
supermarket dumpsters in our refrigerators or cupboards. If you live in our
holistic community home for 12 months or longer you are requested and
reminded now, to volunteer a rent increase every 12 months to adjust for cost
of living increases. If you do not volunteer a reasonable rent increase
someone will discuss it with you once every year. Bounced checks require a
$20 fee for each bounce. Above all communicate. Speak up in a kind and
civilized way so we can all be a part of each other's support group. When you
can donate things to the household to help create a better environment,
please discuss it with others and be as generous as you are able to be,
freely. But, DO NOT leave your junk behind when you move for others to deal
with. Leaving clutter is not a donation or benefit. Be aware and considerate.
Everyone must
shower before using the Jacuzzi or sauna and clean the bathrooms and kitchen every
time they are used. NO EXCEPTIONS. Do not leave your food prep mess for
others to clean. Please clean your pots & pans immediately (no
forgotten soaking, PLEASE?) You must explain the Jacuzzi and sauna
cleanliness policy to your guests everyone showers first no exceptions!
For our own protection it is understood that only friends and guests who you know
have immaculate cleanliness habits are permitted to use the Jacuzzi or
sauna. Only nonsmokers are allowed to use of our bathing facilities (nicotine
free water.) Please do not sit on the Jacuzzi cover. It will break. We use
food grade hydrogen peroxide in the Jacuzzi, but add chlorine once a month to
control algae. Save receipts when
you buy dish soap, bathroom items, garden seeds, etc. and put your name on
the receipt with the items purchased. Put the receipts in the house expenses
jar in the kitchen. Money spent is totaled and refunded or collected at the
end of every month. Your share of these costs is due at the end of
every month. The monthly costs vary from $12 to $20 per person depending on
expenditures. House expenses include light bulbs, laundry and dish soap, and
other kitchen supplies, bathroom tissue and cleaning supplies, gardening
supplies, and common area carpet cleaning every 3 or 4 months, replacement of
the water filter every 3 months and water distiller supplies, and occasional
(and rare) costs of household help (house cleaning services or gardener when
neglect begins to show.) All other agreements are considered obvious
like civilized and considerate behavior and a willingness to communicate if
there is a need to give or receive attention. Refusal to communicate does not
lead to harmony. Please be kind and considerate at all times. Gentleness
& tenderness can move mountains. Negative gossip reaches everyone.
Make a serious effort to be loyal and honest with housemates. NO
homeless people as guests (Respect our privacy.) Your invited
friends and guests are always welcome whenever you are here to greet them. To
preserve the atmosphere of peace and quiet please join us in actively
discouraging friends to just drop by. No, please. We are often asked
if people can just drop by to see our beautiful home and garden. People often
hear very positive things about our special environment, BUT, we have decided
to preserve our special environment of peace, quiet and nourishing, spiritual
peacefulness. Ask friends to come to visit only when they call you first.
We do not do sight seeing tours for the curious. Although we will
always be helpful and courteous to visitors, usually you or others may have other
plans or just want to be alone or read a book. It takes time to be a polite
host and to entertain drop in people if they are allowed to interrupt the
household privacy. I ask all callers if they are expected. (I tell them
that they should call first to be sure you will be here.) I do not allow
anyone into the house if they are not expected, but I do take a written
message if they want to leave a written note. I do not take messages
that I have to memorize or remember. Please do likewise. In the worst case
you would not want a roommate to let a bill collector in to hassle you, or
you might just want privacy. Please give others that privilege too. Quite
frankly, with time, welcome guests are always fun to get to know. You will
have a wonderful experience living here if you preserve the special-ness of
our home. Your welcome guests will enjoy it too. Take pride in personal
appearance-- no underwear in common areas please. Welcome aboard. |