Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on cooperative households (Joanie Connors)

[Joanie Connors (jvcphd]

Thanks, Diana!

We so appreciated your presentation and consultation with us those years
ago (as well as your great book). It's nice to get you input on the next
stage!

I hope to do actual, legal cooperative housing because of the second house
and additional homesites on the 2 acres. But I'd also like to share the big
house, so the other information will be quite helpful!



On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Diana Leafe Christian <diana [at] ic.org> 
wrote:

>
> Hi Joanie,
>
>         I’m so sorry to hear this, and didn’t realize your group had lost
> its land four years ago. If by cooperative housing you mean a shared group
> household (rather than literally a housing co-op) I highly recommend the
> book, The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life & Build
> Community by Janelle Orsi, a lawyer in California who specializes in
> helping people form organizations involving sharing houses, apartments,
> cars, and so on. She’s licensed to practice in California but can probably
> serve as a consultant in general (as compared to being licensed in NM to
> draw up documents) and perhaps can recommend a lawyer in NM who is familiar
> with shared housing. http://janelleorsi.com
>
>         More books for sharing housing:
>         My House Our House: Living Far Better for Far Less in a
> Cooperative Household, by Karen M. Bush and Louise S. Machinist (I’ve read
> this one too: it’s good)
>         How to Start a Golden Girls Home, Bonnie Moore
>         Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good
> Housemates, Annamarie Pluhar
>         House Mates: A Guide to Cooperative Shared Housing, Lori Stephens
>
>         But if you literally mean “cooperative housing” — a specific legal
> entity in which a group of people co-own housing or land (legal in all
> states), involving people owning shares and having separate occupancy
> agreements, I suggest asking the National Cooperative Housing Association
> in Washington DC to recommend lawyers who specialize in co-ops in New
> Mexico. http://coophousing.org
>         Good luck, Joanie!
>         Diana
>
> > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 08:22:35 -0700
> > From: Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com>
> > To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> > Subject: [C-L]_ Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on cooperative
> >       households
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> > It?s been quite a while since I?ve posted about the activities of the
> > planning group for the Silver EcoCommunity in Silver City, New Mexico. We
> > lost our land 4 years ago. Two of us have kept the project on
> life-support
> > for the last 3 years (we even looked at some nice land last fall), but we
> > are now officially dissolved and our IC webpage is closed.
> >
> >
> > Recently, as an individual, I have purchased a large house with a little
> > house to the side and 2 acres. More and more, it seems right to explore
> > cooperative households, where individuals own a property cooperatively.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone here know anything about such things? A good lawyer to
> consult?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your inspiration and great information over the years! Do you
> > think I should leave this list now?
> >
> >
> > Joanie
> > Silver City, NM
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