Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Communities Breaking Up

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

I personally have never heard of any community breaking up over pets. I have
heard of numerous communities that failed over conflicts.  I have known of
several people, including prospective members of my own community,
Sharingwood, who have decided not to join a community because of their
policies regarding pets. This is just selection at work, and any number of
other group policies could form barriers to people joining.  

The largest single reason I know of communities breaking up are financial.
It seems to me that fuzzy thinking about finances dooms most startup groups.


Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: Victoria L. Pilkington [mailto:Tori [at] micronix.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:02 PM
To: Cohousing-L
Subject: [C-L]_ Communities Breaking Up

Recently I was in a discussion with someone that was considering joining us
at the Hummingbird Ranch.  I mentioned that I had read some research that
one of the top 3 reasons that communities break-up is because of pets and/or
a lack of a pet policy.

Can the list here help me out and point me in the direction of any articles
or research that I can forward on to this fellow that goes into more detail?


Victoria L. Pilkington
Business Manager
Micronix, Inc.
2087 South Grant Street
Denver, CO  80210
(303) 777-8939 /w
tori [at] micronix.com
 
There is a crack, a crack in everything.  That's how the light gets in.
 
                      Leonard Cohen
 


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