{"id":23513,"date":"2026-06-29T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/?p=23513"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:49:48","slug":"co-signer-agreement-for-an-applicants-or-members-financial-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/co-signer-agreement-for-an-applicants-or-members-financial-obligations\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-signer agreement for an applicant&#8217;s or member&#8217;s financial obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Organizational Bylaw, Schedule D: Co-signer Agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To: Woodsworth Housing Co-operative Inc.<br \/>\n<em>133 Wilton Street, Toronto, ON, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From Co-signer(s): ____________________________________________<br \/>\n[Include address, phone, e-mail, if available] ____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Applicant: ____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I wish to assist the applicant to obtain housing at the Co-op. My relationship to the Applicant is: [Insert relationship, such as<br \/>\n&#8211; \u201cThe Applicant is my son\u201d or<br \/>\n&#8211; \u201cThe Applicant is my friend.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I understand that the Co-op may accept the Applicant as a member if I agree to be responsible for the Applicant\u2019s financial obligations.<\/p>\n<p>In consideration for the Co-op accepting the Applicant as a member and permitting the Applicant to live at the Co-op, I agree to pay all housing charges and other financial obligations of the Applicant to the Co-op when due.<\/p>\n<p>I understand and agree to the following points:<br \/>\n\u2022 I am directly and principally responsible for these obligations. I am not merely a guarantor or surety.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Co-op can do any of the following things without my consent, without notice to me and without releasing me from my obligations under this Agreement:<br \/>\n\u2022 change the terms of the membership or occupancy of the Applicant<br \/>\n\u2022 allow the Applicant to move to a different unit with a different housing charge<br \/>\n\u2022 change the amount payable by the Applicant because of changes in the housing charges for the Applicant\u2019s unit<br \/>\n\u2022 change the amount payable by the Applicant because of changes in the Applicant\u2019s income if the Applicant receives geared-to-income assistance or subsidy<br \/>\n\u2022 extend time to the Applicant for payment or performance of obligations<br \/>\n\u2022 take or not take steps to enforce payment of money or performance of obligations by the Applicant<br \/>\n\u2022 The Co-op does not have to bring legal action or exercise other remedies against the Applicant or any other person before requiring payment of money or performance of obligations by me. I will remain responsible both before and after the Co-op does this.<br \/>\n\u2022 I cannot cancel or revoke the obligations I have agreed to in this document.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that the co-op can receive, through its employees or agents, credit information about me from any credit agency or other source.<\/p>\n<p>I acknowledge that I have had the opportunity to obtain legal advice and I have obtained any legal advice I wish prior to signing this document.<br \/>\nSigned:<\/p>\n<p>Date: ______________________<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<\/p>\n<p>Co-signer<\/p>\n<p>Witness: __________________<br \/>\nPrint Name:<\/p>\n<p>I authorize the Co-op to give the Co-signer any information it may have about me at the present time or in the future. I agree that I cannot cancel or revoke this authorization.<br \/>\nSigned:<\/p>\n<p>Date: ______________________<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<br \/>\nApplicant<\/p>\n<p>Witness: __________________<\/p>\n<p>Print Name: }<\/p>\n<p>Note: To be signed by all persons in Applicant\u2019s household sixteen or older, including members and non-member occupants.<br \/>\nNote: Adjust above if applicant is already a member and is asking for a new unit or a separate unit (such as the child of an existing member).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizational Bylaw, Schedule D: Co-signer Agreement To: Woodsworth Housing Co-operative Inc. 133 Wilton Street, Toronto, ON, Canada From Co-signer(s): ____________________________________________ [Include address, phone, e-mail, if available] ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Applicant: ____________________________________________ I wish to assist the applicant to obtain housing at the Co-op. My relationship to the Applicant is: [Insert relationship, such as &#8211; \u201cThe Applicant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/co-signer-agreement-for-an-applicants-or-members-financial-obligations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Co-signer agreement for an applicant&#8217;s or member&#8217;s financial obligations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[453,688],"tags":[38,710],"class_list":["post-23513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-membership-in-woodsworth","category-subsidies-and-fnancial-assistance","tag-forms-2","tag-housing-charges"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}