Re: strategies to rein in escalating purchase prices | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Olaf Kula (kulaolaf1957gmail.com) | |
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 07:06:05 -0700 (PDT) |
Thank you Ann for your thoughtful response. I am with ABQ Co-housing, dba Bosque Co-housing. On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 09:16 Main Email <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote: > Hello Olaf— I feel your pain. > > Unless I’m completely mistaken most cohousing communities have to go > through this period Sometimes called “value engineering. “ Not unusual for > our eyes to be a lot bigger than our checkbooks. > > It stings. > > We certainly did that here when Takomavillage in Washington DC was right > at construction phase. It’s been over 20 years so I don’t recall the > details but I do remember one consideration we had was to keep anything > inside the walls – geothermal, insulation, etc. - because > obviously changing or adding things later inside the walls would be so > much higher. > > Unfortunately, you are also trying to build at one of the most difficult > times for construction. Lack of labor, lack of materials, unstable supply > lines, vs super demand for housing. I heard just yesterday that people > whose homes were burnt out in the California fires 4 years ago are still > waiting for checks to rebuild their homes wherever they’re going to build > them. Get in line… > > Just thinking out loud here… The first place to start is with your > architect and engineer. Or your developer or your developer consultant - > whomever is on your professional team. One of these folks is responsible > for bringing in the design within the budget. So I would be going back to > them to find out what they recommend. > > I would not recommend building the common house later. Later always gets > to be much much much later. If at all You may end up with a Common House > that doesn’t suit your needs. My experience shows that the common house is > the place that the group will seek to make cuts. That’s not necessarily a > bad thing but the cuts can get so deep because they don’t want to take it > out of their personal houses. The common house becomes second cousin to the > whole development. Or maybe even a third cousin. Or maybe even at least one > case I know of they never got their Common House at all. Consider > removing bells and whistles from your individual units. I know. It’s > heresy. But not within the Cohousing tradition in which you are looking to > Build a Community not just bricks and mortar housing. As Katie McCamant > says: you are building a neighborhood. I take that to mean the overall feel > and accessibility to common features of the whole construction. What’s > going to draw people out into the whole space Not just the interior and > exterior of individual homes but the whole gestalt? > > Do you have a website so we can see the design? > > Just a gentle gentle reminder to everyone posting… It’s a great service to > people reading like me to know the name of your community, where you are in > the world and just a little something about where you are in your process > for instance: forming, building, built, expanding. One of my goals is to > build a sense of Community whatever medium I’m using. This is especially > true for an email list. Even us old timers contributing to the list I > might be mindful about including this information because there are always > new folks Joining us. > > Ann Zabaldo > Takoma Village Cohousing > Washington DC > > Sent from my iPhone > All tiipos ... curtesy of Siri :-) > > > On May 25, 2021, at 7:36 AM, Olaf Kula <kulaolaf1957 [at] gmail.com> wrote: > > > > We are looking for advice on strategies that different co-housing > > communities have used to rein in escalating home purchase prices. Our > most > > recent construction estimates are some 30% higher than most of us were > > aware of. The sticker shock threatens the ability of some members on > > fixed incomes to remain. > > > Snip > > > Please share any and all ideas. > > > > Optimistically, > > > > Olaf > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > >
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