Resident-run co-op · Tulsa, Oklahoma
Riverbend is a manufactured home community that runs on its own members. Membership is how the co-op keeps the repair fund stocked, the upgrades moving and the coffee on in the community room.
Co-op governance
Board seats, budgets and upgrades get talked through in the open at member meetings — then written up and pinned back here for anyone who missed it.
Emergency repair fund
Members pay in what they can. The committee can then act on a burst line or a busted step long before it becomes somebody's whole month.
Social committees
Committees are how the fun gets organised — and how a new neighbour gets a hello in the first week.
01 / Resident membership
Membership is the engine. It's how a street of homes becomes a co-op that owns its own decisions — the repairs, the upgrades, the meetings and the potlucks.
Members pay in, vote on what matters, and get the notice board's worth of information in return. The people who decide things live on the same street as the people who live with the decision.
What membership covers
02 / Community upgrades
Upgrades at Riverbend don't arrive from an office somewhere else. They start as a note on this board, get costed by a committee, and land in front of the members for a vote.
Community upgrades
Somebody writes it down, a committee gathers quotes and checks what the fund can carry, and the members decide. Nothing gets dug up before it's been talked through.
How a decision gets madeEmergency repair fund
The repair fund is a small, steady pot that members pay into. It's what lets a committee say yes to a plumber on a Tuesday, then bring the receipt and the story to the next meeting.
Give once, or set something aside each month. Either way it sits in the fund until a neighbour needs it.
03 / Co-op governance
Anyone in the community can start something. The route from a scribbled note to a finished job is short, written down, and the same for everybody.
A member writes the note and posts it on the board, or brings it up at a member meeting.
The right committee pulls the note, gathers quotes and checks what the repair fund can carry.
It goes on the agenda, gets discussed in the open, and members vote on it — one household, one vote.
The decision, the cost and the next step go back up on the board where everyone can see them.
Home site leases
A home site lease is the agreement that holds your place at Riverbend — your site, your terms, in writing. The co-op that signs it is the same co-op that answers when something on that site needs fixing.
Ask the board about leasing a site, or about bringing a home onto one.
05 / Join in
Membership, committee sign-ups and gifts to the repair fund all begin with a strip of paper and somebody's name on it. Take one — or put your name in the form and we'll pin it to the right board.
Riverbend Manufactured Home Community · Tulsa, Oklahoma
Leave a note for the board
04 / Social committees
The board is mostly people who like their neighbours.
Committees do the small, steady work: the potluck, the garden beds, the clean-up route, the hello to somebody who just moved in. Sign up for one and you're not signing up for much — that's the point.
Potluck Crew
Set the tables, bring a dish, settle the chili question once a year.
Garden Beds
Beds, seed swaps, and somebody to water while you're away.
Clean-Up Day
Rakes, trucks and a route mapped out before anyone gets volunteered.
Welcome Wagon
A hello, a map of the community and who to call about what.
Coffee & Notices
Post the flyers, refill the pot, keep the board readable.