Membership is not the deed

A country club home in the Park City area is often sold with a story that sounds like a single purchase: the house, the golf, the gate, the people. The paperwork is rarely that tidy. The deed is a real estate transaction. The membership is a relationship with a private club, on the club’s terms.

Melilli Davis Group works Promontory, Talisker and Tuhaye, and Canyons Village. The first two are private-club landscapes. Canyons Village is a resort village, and the lesson still applies in a different costume: the HOA, the rental program, and the unit are not the same document.

What we ask before a second showing

• Is a membership offered with this property, required, or unavailable?
• Who approves the buyer — the seller, the association, the club, or all three?
• What transfers, and what has to be applied for from scratch?
• Which costs are the club’s to quote, rather than ours to estimate?

We do not publish dues or approval odds on this site. Clubs change categories, and a number from last season is a way to be confidently wrong. The useful version of the answer is the one the club will put in writing for this buyer and this home.

Why sellers should care

A seller who implies that “the membership comes with it,” without the letter that says so, creates a negotiation that shows up the week of closing. Clear language up front — included, available for application, or not part of this sale — keeps the house priced as a house.

If you are starting a search, call Nick Melilli at (954) 383-1478 or write hello@melillidavis.com. Marcie Davis is at (435) 602-9577. Darrick Olsen is at (435) 640-1029. Derek Fossey is at (612) 248-7374.