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

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 12:54 AM, Fern Selzer/US/CA/95003/NBC via Cohousing-L 
> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> 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.

Eris Weaver is a highly rated facilitator and lives in FrogSong (Right?). She 
has also written a nice little book on discussing financial issues. "Let’s Talk 
About Money."

http://www.erisweaver.info/books.html

We are on the wrong side of the country to work with her.

> 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)

Retirement communities have various schemes for dealing with this. The Kendall 
life care communities, originally Quaker, have a policy of not excluding 
residents who are no longer able to afford living there. They have various ways 
of coping. I would contact one of them. The literature on life care communities 
may also have this information.

Of course, with their population, they are talking about a period of time that 
is almost guaranteed to be only a few years at best. And in the first place, 
they are much more careful about ensuring as best they can that a person can 
afford to live there.

Please keep writing about how this proceeds. This is a problem for any group of 
people with common financial investments, particularly real estate which is a 
deteriorating asset. Either you maintain and improve it to keep up with 
industry standards, or you lose it. 

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org