Re: Cozy cohousing home near downtown Sacramento
From: Richart Keller (richart.kellergmail.com)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:38:27 -0800 (PST)
Has this gotten a little off-track?

Rick Keller
Pioneer Valley Cohousing
Amherst, MA
 On Jan 11, 2014 5:36 PM, "Richard L. Kohlhaas" <rlkohl [at] earthlink.net>
wrote:

>
> IMO, even more important than a website, to communities looking for new
> members and/or resales, is
> an up-to-date listing in the Directory section of www.cohousing.org.
>
> That is one of the first places that prospective cohousers, looking for a
> particular region, will
> look.
>
> Surprisingly, there are several communities with no listing at all, and
> there are many which have
> not been updated in years--which means that contact information is perhaps
> obsolete.
>
> How is YOUR community's listing looking?
>
>
>
> Date sent:              Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:48:46 -0800
> From:                   Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant [at] 
> cohousingpartners.com>
> To:                     Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject:                Re: [C-L]_ Cozy cohousing home near downtown
> Sacramento
> Send reply to:          Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
>
> >
> > Of course no one is "required" to have a website...but it will definitely
> > effect your resales. Southside Park is on of the older communities
> > (completed in 1993) and built before we were so dependent on the web and
> > email (hard to imagine how we even did it back in the day without
> > email...remember phone trees?????)
> >
> > But I do think this issue points out one of the weak spot for
> > cohousing...the community as a whole caring about resales. The cohousing
> > resale process tends to be quite haphazard and few real estate agents
> > understand how to sell cohousing. Communities talk a lot during the early
> > process about wanting to control who joins, but really that is all about
> > the effort and resources put toward that as a community, not just when
> you
> > personally are ready to sell.
> >
> > One of the few communities that has done a great job on supporting the
> > resale process is Pleasant Hill Cohousing in CA. They have a resell
> > committee that works to serve both the Seller and the Buyer. I would urge
> > communities to consider organizing a resale committee to work with
> > Sellers, and in return asking sellers to give a percentage (1/2% or 1%)
> > back to the community at closing, especially if you are able to sell
> > without a paying a realtor (which would be 6%). That funding could go to
> > things like hiring someone to do a good website, working up a flyer
> > template that can be easily adapted for different homes, and keeping a
> > database of people that have expressed interest over the years (also good
> > when rentals come up).
> >
> > Katie
> >
> > --
> > Kathryn McCamant, President, Architect
> > CoHousing Partners, LLC
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
> Dick Kohlhaas <rlkohl [at] earthlink.net>
> (719)633-8170
> Board Member, Cohousing Association of the US
> Resident of  Colorado Springs Cohousing Community at Casa Verde Commons
> Completed March 2003. 34 units on 4 acres     www.casaverde.us
>
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