Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: purchase sans RE agent

[HeidiNYS (HeidiNYS]

We recently sold our home [at Cantines Island;  we're building another here: 
recently married, need more/different space] directly.  Each party did retain 
an Attorney for paperwork.
Had pleasant, easy closing.....

enjoy yours,
Ruth Hirsch

In a message dated 10/8/03 1:02:34 PM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org 
writes:

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:00:52 -0700
Cc: Coho-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
To: catya [at] homeport.org
From: Marty Roberts <MartyR [at] sonic.net>
Subject: [C-L]_green policies
Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org

Our whole property is organic.  We are about to install solar electric 
panels for our common house.  We try to make community meals as organic 
as possible.  We recycle everything.  Most of us compost our kitchen 
scraps.  We grow organic vegetables.  We conserve energy as much as 
possible and are installing low use light bulbs (fluorescent).

I wish we could do more!
Marty Roberts
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol, CA

Marty Roberts Productions
Video and Web Site Production
http://www.martyrobertsproductions.com
(707) 829-9191


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 08:23:36 -0400
From: Catya Belfer-Shevett <catya [at] homeport.org>
Cc: Coho-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: [C-L]_Re: green policies
Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org

> Our whole property is organic.

I'm not sure what that means :)  Does that include cleaning products people 
use in individual units, and that sort of thing?

    - catya



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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:44:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
To: -cohousing-L mailing list <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: [C-L]_Steps to buy a house directly from owner (no realtor involved)
Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org

Veena Achar <veenaachar [at] hotmail.com>
is the author of the message below. 
It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> 
because the message included HTML ;      PLEASE do not post HTML, see
   http://csf.colorado.edu/cohousing/2001/msg01672.html  and
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Hello

we are going to buy a unit in a cohousing community in Bay Area,
California. We are buying a unit from members who have lived there for the
past two years. The current owners and we have agreed that it makes sense
to handle the paperwork directly (since t hey want to sell to us and we
want to buy from them and we have agreed on a price) 

Since we (both sides) are not going to use a realtor, my questions are

-has anyone in cohousing done this before without using a realtor?

-If so, what are the steps involved?

-we have heard that maybe we need to hire a real estate lawyer to make
sure that all paperwork gets done properly. If anyone can give us the name
of such a lawyer that they have used, that would be very helpful

-I checked online and there are sites that charge fees for some real
estate forms, but I am not sure if thats all one needs to do, plus if
there are seperate forms because the unit is part of a 'condominium' and
if real estate forms are state-specific

Any help/tips are appreciated! 
Thanks in advance 
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Veena Achar  
(hoping to buy a unit in Pleasant Hill Cohousing, Pleasant Hill, CA)  >>

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