Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
Wow, that looks like a great book! I'll have to check it out. One of my daughters-in-law's family has a cabin on a lake in the Adirondacks. She represents the third generation to share it, and she comes from a big Catholic French-Canadian family. They have done a great job managing it and sharing it together. So I've been asking her about how they do it. They recently formed an LLC, for instance.

In my case, we are building a "compound" of sorts.. We have the 22-ft camper that my DD/DSIL own completely at this point. It's off-limits to eveyone else (except for DH and I). So, my other DS/DDIL decided to invest in a we-shed (I just made that up--like a she-shed for a couple). They are paying ~5k for an 8x12 Amish shed that they'll use as a sleeping/sitting space when they're up here, which is almost every weekend.

Thankfully DS#3&4 aren't up here nearly as much. But once DH and I are gone and they all own it....
That is amazing that they have had the cabin in their family for three generations--definitely get her input on what they do!
I was looking at that book and I guess that guy coined the term "cottage law" and was from Michigan--there used to be an advertising trailer in the movie house where we went to in Suttons Bay and that might have been the lawfirm I was thinking about. The ad made you really want to have a cottage and to keep it in your family--very effective!

Here's another source:
The Family Cottage - Rosi & Gardner, P.C.