Cohousing-L Mailing List: Turnover in Cohousing

[Chris ScottHanson (chris]

Did you know that something approaching 50% of the hsoue sales in  
cohousing are from cohousers purchasing other cohousing - moving up  
in size, moving down in size, or moving to a new location with  
existing cohousing?

In western culture, it appears, home ownership is on average, a 3  
year thing.  Then we move to another home that we own.  In cohousing  
this number is higher we think, maybe as much as double.  Doing the  
math, moving once every 6 years on average (some more often and some  
not at all!), a 30 unit cohousing community will most likely have one  
unit turn over each year or so.

Human behavior x the numbers...  no judgement involved.

Chris

On Jul 21, 2006, at 3:11 AM, Lion Kuntz wrote:

> The part you forgot is where you live when you have cashed in on your
> investment. The kid is in college, yes, I get that part, but you sold
> the house according to your theory, so where do you live? Oh, this  
> must
> be the part about living in the tent that I didn't understand in
> earlier discussions.