The wisdom of experience
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 07:37:02 -0700 (MST)
Frank Rackow and Leslie Myers <frackow [at] istar.ca>
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Greetings from Prairie Sky Cohousing in Calgary, Canada.

We 'cohosers' (as my upstairs neighbour-to-be has dubbed us) are less than 
three months away from move-in and are on the verge (he wrote hopefully) of 
selling the last of our 18 units and completing our community.
As a result, the focus of our community building committee is now shifting away 
from marketing towards figuring out how we will live together and create a 
vital community. To that end, we are trying to foresee what issues might 
require living-there agreem
ents. E.g.. use of common facilities, issues around pets, parenting, rentals 
etc.
 
We would appreciate some feedback from people in established communities on the 
following questions that have come up in our discussions:
What agreements are absolutely necessary prior to move-in? What can be left 
until later? 
What were the anticipated areas requiring agreement that perhaps turned out to 
be less critical than foreseen? And what were the unforeseen issues that could 
have used some attention prior to move-in?
We realize as well that it's possible to get too hung up on 'codifying' things 
and trying to foresee every eventuality. Perhaps it's best to have some general 
guiding principles and processes to deal with these issues?  Your thoughts and 
comments would be
 much appreciated. Reply privately if you prefer, or post to the group if you 
feel the discussion would be of interest. 
Thanks,

Frank Rackow
Prairie Sky Cohousing
Calgary, Alberta
Frank [at] prairiesky.ab.ca
frackow [at] istar.ca
Frank_Rackow [at] cbc.ca



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