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From: Craig Ragland (craigraglandgmail.com) | |
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:36:25 -0800 (PST) |
I'm sure it is obvious to a lot of folks on Coho-L that it would be REALLY good if collecting and sharing this type of information was an established Coho/US role... that is, such key information was available on cohousing.org . Same thing with sample docs of various types, etc. I wanted to share that this idea is not lost to the Coho/US board. I'm afraid that to date, it has been just another thing that we have needed more energy to address given our established, legacy practices and priorities. Assuming we are able to marshal more resources... and we are about to, you will see this type of resource in the future. I know, believe me, that this type of "coming soon" message seems lame when you have an immediate need... So, I ask for your continued patience, encouragement, and support for Coho/US. The following is primarily for those who, like me, remember how things used to be... I've lived at Songaia since 1992. I was part of the Songaia self-development project from 1992-2000. During much of this time, which was not too long ago, those of us who wanted to live in cohousing really had very few choices. We essentially had to self-develop our communities - on our own. We had almost no National shared resources. Almost none of the cohousing professionals actually used email. Very few cohousers actively shared much useful information (Except Rob Sandelin, who has been HERE since the dawn of time). We relied on books, word-of-mouth, MANY small meetings, occasional visits to our markets from a few professionals, a few pioneers in our regions, and we spent and invested LOTS of energy trying to figure out everything, for ourselves, re-inventing lots and lots of wheels. And a great MANY groups failed in their efforts. Today, things are better for us. We have the highly functional Cohousing Directory that is a great source of new members. We have the Cohousing MarketPlace - a really cheap way to buy/sell a cohousing home without real estate listing fees. We now have many wonderful cohousing professionals who contribute to the movement and industry in so many ways. We have the ability to ask and receive helpful information VERY QUICKLY via this well-used list. We have Cohousing Magazine - which presents well researched, useful articles and columns available for FREE, just by signing up here: http://cohousing.org/subscribe.aspx Tomorrow, things will be even better still. One reason that I'm excited about tomorrow is that the Coho/US Board is aligning interests to step up to some new opportunities that will fundamentally change things. I really hope that those of you who now engage on the National Movement or Industry level will also be excited when we start revealing our plans and achievements publicly in the coming weeks. In community, Craig On Dec 7, 2007 1:39 PM, <balaji [at] ouraynet.com> wrote: > Please, anyone who responds to this, do send the same information to us at > the UTAH VALLEY COHOUSING COMMUNITY. We could use it. Thanks! Charles > Nuckolls. > > we are now preparing to approach banks > > for > > development-related financing. Along with all the normal supporting > docs, > > I > > am looking for any documentation that shows cohousing houses selling as > > good > > if not better than regular subdivisions, and anything that demonstrates > > the > > imperviousness of cohousing development to the current housing downturn. >
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The future of cohousing support? (was Cohousing success documentation for banks as we begin the loan search) Craig Ragland, December 7 2007
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Re: The future of cohousing support? (was Cohousing success documentation for banks as we begin the loan search) Paul L. Della Maggiora, December 7 2007
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Re: The future of cohousing support? (was Cohousing success documentation for banks as we begin the loan search) Sharon Villines, December 7 2007
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Re: The future of cohousing support? (was Cohousing success documentation for banks as we begin the loan search) Sharon Villines, December 7 2007
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Re: The future of cohousing support? (was Cohousing success documentation for banks as we begin the loan search) Paul L. Della Maggiora, December 7 2007
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