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From: R Philip Dowds (rpdowdscomcast.net) | |
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:04:04 -0700 (PDT) |
But … many condos own stuff in common: Stairwells, swimming pools, clubhouses, lawnmowers, fences, laundry rooms, etc. And all condos also govern themselves via sub-groups such as managing boards and committees. So how is cohousing different? Well, as a design and construction professional who worked the residential market for more than a decade, I can report that condominium associations have a bad reputation generally for being unreliable and hard to work with. Many architects, engineers and contractors refuse to work for a condo association, except maybe as a last resort when other business has dried up. In general, I think that condos organized as cohos are more rational and dependable than those organized otherwise; they certainly aren’t any worse. If a bank is willing to loan for a dwelling unit embedded in a aggregation of alienated strangers, it should surely be willing to lend for a similar unit in a community of friends. So I remain totally opposed to skulking around, hoping that the capitalist interests of money and property fail to notice that I live in cohousing. I think we need to keep on doing what we’re doing: Educating, and leading the way. RPD > On Apr 25, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> > wrote: > > From the > perspective of the banks, they are happiest when it is just a condo, plain > and simple.
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still happening........... Leah, April 25 2015
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Re: still happening........... Diana Carroll, April 25 2015
- Re: still happening........... R Philip Dowds, April 25 2015
- Re: still happening........... Sharon Villines, April 25 2015
- Re: still happening........... John Sechrest, April 25 2015
- Re: still happening........... Ann Zabaldo, April 25 2015
- Re: still happening........... John Sechrest, April 25 2015
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Re: still happening........... Diana Carroll, April 25 2015
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