Re: management services vs self-management at the building stage
From: John Carver (jcarverislandnet.com)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 21:20:44 -0700 (PDT)
I believe Allison is referring to what's called a project manager, one who oversees the project but is not the developer.

Allison, we're just across the water in Nanaimo at Pacific Gardens Cohousing. Our group hired an administrator to handle the business side, a project manager to oversee the building construction and a construction company to assemble the contracts to do the actual building. We created a numbered company to be the developer, so the developer was us. That is, through the numbered company we bought the land, did the hiring, applied for the rezoning and permits, arranged the financing, filed with land titles then sold the properties to the member/shareholders.

Unfortunately none of the above, including the architects, were cohousing experienced, and our little clutch of would-be cohousers were not development experienced, which made for a rough learning pathway. Mistakes were made, some of them quite costly. That said, I think I can say we are generally happy with the result, but most would agree we would have done better with the right professionals.

Being in Vancouver you have access to good experienced resource people. Reach out to the other cohousing groups in the area for their suggestions.

John Carver
Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community, Nanaimo, BC
http://pacificgardens.ca/
(Yes, we do have units for sale.)

On 05/05/2015 6:44 PM, Katie Henry wrote:
On Cohousing-L, the person who handles land acquisition and construction is normally 
referred to as the developer. A management company is an entity that manages the facility 
after construction is finished and the community members have moved in (paying bills, 
performing maintenance, etc.). The terms may be different in Canada, but you'll have 
better luck in the coho-l archives using the term "developer."
Katie Henry
From: Allison tom <allison.tom [at] telus.net>
  To: Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net>; "cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org" 
<cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
  Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 8:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [C-L]_ management services vs self-management at the building 
stage
No, I mean a management company who oversees the process of land acquisition, building, community formation.





On May 5, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net> wrote:


   I would very much appreciate hearing from list members who can share their > 
stories about buying land & building with and without a management company.
I think you might mean a developer, rather than a management company. You might try the 
archives again, searching on "developer."
Katie Henry
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