Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: group facilitation for financial issues

[Jerry McIntire (jerry.mcintire]

125 miles, almost 3.5 hours-- depending on traffic! Right through the Bay
area.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> Hello Fern --
>
> One of the best facilitators working in cohousing is Eris Weaver. Have you
> read her book Let's Talk About Money?
>
> She lives at Frog Song Cohousing in Cotati CA.  Is that very far from you?
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Dec 7, 2015, at 12:54 AM, Fern Selzer/US/CA/95003/NBC via Cohousing-L
> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> > Our cohousing group, New Brighton Cohousing in Aptos, CA is in need of
> some group processing regarding money issues.
> >
> >
> > I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for us.    We are not
> likely to spend a lot of money importing someone here, and we do know some
> local people who we have used before that we are considering, but if you
> can recommend anyone in the SF Bay area, we would be interested.
> > Do you have experiences processing overall money values and/or resolving
> long-term financial conflicts:   what was helpful?
> >
> >
> > Below are some of the questions/issues that we are  thinking about, but
> we will be trying to prioritize and narrow down in our next meeting in
> preparation for planning the training.  We are financially interdependent
> even more so than many communities because we are a TIC with a group loan.
> >
> >
> > Some issues:
> > A diversity of values, sense of trust, scarcity vs. abundance re:
> money.   These issues have never been directly discussed, but are in the
> background and often foster creativity and compromise, but sometimes
> problematic.
> > Some people may have chosen to live in our community mainly because it
> was affordable to buy in, while others were mainly attracted to the
> cohousing aspect.
> > Some of our original plans were completely unhinged by the real estate
> bust of 2008.  Now most of us are wanting to move forward with some of the
> improvements we had planned originally.
> > What to  do if someone can no longer afford to live here but doesn't
> want to leave even though it is holding us back from getting a better
> refinance. (this hasn't exactly happened, but could soon)
> > Financial situation and/or preference (and often we don't know which)
> causes some households to be unwilling to fund our recommended deferred
> maintenance and would rather have lower standards of upkeep or wait until
> something happens that must have a repair.
> > We are considering building a new unit in our community and how we would
> fund this and how we would use any profit, how much profit to build in,
> etc., are all in question and either stopping or really slowing down the
> pace of movement forward.
> >
> >
> > So you can see, there are a lot of possible ways for us to enter this
> conversation.  Any thoughts? I would appreciate any ideas or stories about
> your community processing around these issues.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Fern
> > New Brighton Cohousing
> >
> >
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