Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Answer to Meg (New View correction)

[Jim Snyder-Grant (jimsg]

Just for the record...

Joanie said:
>
>Now at Vashon Island, all the units are single family houses, as they 
are
>at Sharingwood or New View in W. Acton, MA. (New View, sorry I can't
>remember your new name.) 

Actually we have a mix of attached and detached houses (15 buildings, 24 
households), and we are structured as a condo, so we had the same issues 
as Joanie describes. We did have one household who did a lot of the work 
on their own house, after our builder did the foundation, framing, walls 
and floors. We wrote up some semi-elaborate paperwork for that household 
to sign, which basically bound them to finishing up the work with 
appropriate quality and timing, to certificate-of-occupancy standards, 
so that the rest of us weren't at risk.

And we don't have a new name... We did get to name our road "Half Moon 
Hill", so that's kind of like our name, but the "New View" name lives on 
as well.

-Jim

Where we signed off on letting the common house construction drawings 
continue, so we can still plan on opening our common house this year.


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