Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: still happening...........

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Sorry, did not mean that to sound like a lecture.  Even so, I would not advise 
any sellers of today or groups forming now to try … concealing? … the cohousing 
nature of their effort.  It strikes me as futile to seek to build community by 
advertising the cohousing culture and lifestyle to candidate buyers, while at 
the same time hoping that realtors and banks fail to notice this marketing 
distinction.  Instead, my advice would be, Go find and cultivate lenders and 
realtors who “get it”, and want to do business with and for a very credible and 
favorable market segment.

Said another way:  If you can’t explain it to the professionals, how are you 
going to explain to the average homebuyer?

But again, sorry for any tone that implied a lecture.  I certainly understand 
that coming onto the market in 2008-09 could be an experience ranging from 
painful to catastrophic.

RPD

> On Apr 25, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> "Skulk"?
> 
> Our first unit came on the market right when the real estate market crashed
> in 08. Since then it's taken us nearly 7 years to sell all our units. Our
> development entity is bankrupt and a lot of individuals lost a LOT of
> money.
> 
> You can come lecture us about how we should have stood up to the banks
> instead of "skulking" when it's YOUR money on the line, not ours.
> 
> Diana at Mosaic Commons