I think I would not call it a monthly membership if it has a 1-year term. All our memberships are paid in advance; to terminate the contract they only have to intentionally not pay the upcoming month. (we do contact people first, the intention is not to have somebody suddenly be "homeless" because they forgot something)
In the past we tried a model which was based around an anchor business and related sector coworkers; we presently do not have a location with that model, but I am working with a company interested in it. In that situation I would build in notice requirements for leaving, because that is one of the features of that approach: if you anchor leaves, the community needs to re-form in some fundamental ways, which is not really fun to do without warning. The reason for a penalty theoretically is usually that the landlord has had costs or made alterations or otherwaise modified toe space for a certain use, in reliance on the contract, those cost are then compensated by the penalty. (I realize this is mostly not how it is used in commercial real estate now, but that was the idea in the beginning). If this has not happened, then I would need to think about why a penalty was necessary before putting one in a contract. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
