Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Unit mix/size

[Ellen Keyne Seebacher (elle]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 03:17:18PM -0400, Christina Smillie wrote:
> 

> Your idea of possibly sharing households, several people with only 
> bedrooms or perhaps a common kitchen/living room, is very intriguing, a 
> sort of mini-coho within the coho. We have several individuals, both 
> couples and singles, anxious to join us, for whom this could make it 
> much more affordable. Is anyone actually doing this? As renters or as 
> co-owners of a unit, or?

We've heard that banks discourage it.  Of all the people who talked to
us about the possibility for our 4BRs (which have three bedrooms, one
master-sized, plus a bath on the second floor, and another master-sized
bedroom and bath on the first) ... not a single one actually went
through with the idea.


        Ellen