Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Urban cohousing

[Rob Sandelin (robsan]

Jim Baranski
Baltic Mill Renovation Association wrote

>The only catastrophe we've had to deal with is that the majority of our
>original local co-housing group, when it actually came down to 
actually *doing*
>co-housing, decided that they didn't *really* want to do Co-housing, or it was
>not located were they would have liked it, or they didn't want to live in a
>converted mill.


I would point out that this is a totally common phemenona amoung most 
cohousing groups.  In my research for the Cohousing Resource Guide 
having people bail out at the time you commit real money seems to be a 
common cohousing "trap".