I live in a cooperative household in California - 8 people total - and we have a house bank account that we use to pay for communal food, toilet paper, etc. as well as rent. We all deposit $ in the account, and our house treasurer writes one big check for rent that our landlord cashes. Now the local credit union wants us to pay taxes on the money going in and out of that account, which we've never encountered in the ~5-10 years the house has been running things this way. What to do? [more inside]
posted by wintersonata9 on Jan 31, 2013 - 14 answers

Consumer cooperatives for internet services ? Examples and 'how was it done' type information ? [more inside]
posted by southof40 on May 30, 2012 - 3 answers

If a bookstore were a co-op, would the exemption provided to co-ops in the Robinson-Patman act allow publishers to offer different sale terms for them than they would to say, Amazon or Barnes and Noble? [more inside]
posted by Toekneesan on May 28, 2012 - 7 answers

Recommend some good online multiplayer cooperative games for the PS3? (with a split-screen twist!) [more inside]
posted by cschneid on Oct 31, 2011 - 11 answers

Is poor participation normal for a preschool co-op? And if so, how do we fix it? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 5, 2011 - 8 answers

I'm after a documentary I once saw about a self-building housing co-operative in the UK—or more information about the programmes. [more inside]
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Dec 22, 2010 - 4 answers