SUGGESTED CABIN GUIDELINES

November 9, 2011

The cabin has really been a great blessing to all of us and we hope you will continue to use it as much as most of you did last year. This year we have invested an awful lot in cabin restoration inside and out and have decided it is best for the family to not sell it but keep it for our family's use. This valuable asset belongs to all of you in eight equal shares.  Here are the guidelines.

HOW TO HANDLE THE CABIN, FOUR WHEELERS, AND TRAILER

1.     Each year each couple will pay an amount you feel comfortable with for the cost of the cabin which is @ $5- 6,000 a year.

2.     Perhaps May would be the month in which you should make your payment to us; that would be much appreciated. Dad and Mom will continue to pay for the part left over with respect to the cabin. For paying, I think we can just set Dad up with a Paypal money reminder/request in May and then everyone can respond with whatever amount they are comfortable with.  Dad/Mom should definitely NOT have to be reminding or hounding any of us for payment. 

3.     One family will be appointed each year to go with mom and dad in the spring to make a list of any maintenance or repair items needed. (Jared and Allyson will do it for 2012). This couple will make up a work schedule of items to be done and share it with all. Then the rest of the family can pick the item or items they would like to be responsible for. The family in charge of the cabin for the year should probably be 'point' for handling issues that come up occasionally like getting the gas the propane gas tank refilled in October too.

4.     Next spring a check list of consumable items will also be created.

5.     Through the year when you use the cabin, upon leaving you should review the list and make a note of what is missing from the consumable list, be responsible to purchase the missing items, and give them to the next person going up to the cabin so they can restock it.

6.     For cabin scheduling let's put it in the cookclan google calendar— it shows up on our site as well. 

7.     Final suggestions:

A.     Remember if someone in your family breaks something that family should be responsible for buying what is broken and repairing it.

B.     #A has to do with the four wheelers and the trailer as well. If you use the four wheelers and they are muddy or really dirty you ought to squirt them off with the hose so the next ones to come to the cabin have clean ones to ride.

C.     Be sure when you are leaving the cabin to scout around the lot for paper, cardboard, and scraps of wood (wood had to be mentioned right?) the kids have played with and leave the lot as clean as the house as well.

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