How Scheduling Works in a Shared Vacation Home
How do eight owners share a calendar?
It's the question almost every prospective co-owner asks first. The answer is in the Operating Agreement — established before the property is purchased, so every co-owner knows exactly what they're agreeing to before they're an owner.
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Scheduling is decided by the group, not imposed by CoHaven.
CoHaven doesn't hand every group the same scheduling template. The specific approach is agreed to during group formation and written into the Operating Agreement — but most groups draw from a small set of proven models.
Fixed seasonal rotation
Each owner is assigned specific weeks that rotate year to year, so everyone gets a turn at peak summer weeks over time rather than one owner always holding the best weeks. Predictable and easy to plan around — the most common approach for groups with similar usage patterns.
Annual drawing system
Owners submit their preferred weeks each year and a structured drawing (often with priority weighting that rotates annually) allocates the calendar. Works well for groups whose members want flexibility year to year rather than a fixed rotation.
Reserved weeks plus first-come booking
Each owner reserves a set number of guaranteed weeks — often covering the highest-demand season — with the remaining calendar open on a first-come, first-served basis. Popular with groups where usage patterns vary significantly by owner.
Date trading between owners.
Life doesn't always cooperate with a fixed schedule. The Operating Agreement provides for direct date trading between co-owners — if your assigned week doesn't work for a given year, you can trade with another owner within the structure the agreement establishes.
This is typically handled through simple mutual agreement between the two owners involved, tracked through the group's shared calendar system. CoHaven's HavenHub platform, currently in development, will handle this digitally for CoHaven groups — see > what's coming with HavenHub.
What happens when two owners want the same week.
This is the scenario every prospective co-owner pictures — and it's exactly why the scheduling system is defined before anyone owns anything. Conflicts are resolved by whatever system the group's Operating Agreement establishes (rotation priority, drawing order, or reserved-week precedence), not by whoever asks first or pushes hardest.
Groups with compatible usage patterns — established during the > co-owner matching process — tend to have the fewest scheduling conflicts in practice. A group that's already aligned on wanting different weeks rarely fights over the calendar.
Questions about how scheduling would work for your group?
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