Cohousing-L Mailing List: New Members

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Alan and all — a little request …  it would be helpful for those using DIGEST 
mode to change the Subject line. 

Re: [C-L]_ Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 148, Issue 3 - new members

Happily I see that DIGEST does include the topic — in this case “new members” — 
but it’s hard to track the thread because DIGEST text is not tracked w/ the 
original posting’s subject line.  In other words … if you don’t change the 
subject line then you start a whole new thread.  So this post from Alan is now 
separate from the responses to Jan Kenney’s post.

My 2 cents.  Just looking for slightly more organization … will not cause 
collapse of western civilization if not followed …  :-)

Best --

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church, VA
202.546.4654

My password is the last 5 digits of Pi …


> On May 3, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Alan O'Hashi via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] 
> cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> based on fair housing laws i don't think any group can exclude qualified 
> people.
> 
> if a buyer and seller agree, there's not much a community can do.
> 
> when distant extended families, estates and trusts get involved who could 
> care less about cohousing it's particularly challenging.
> 
> here, if a person / family are close to buying, we ask that they attend a 
> community meeting and a dinner to interact with members, have an orientation 
> meeting with a small group of the community intelligencia to learn about the 
> hoa structure, participation in community governance, tasks, etc.
> 
> dissuasion of buyers by members is a fine line to dance. we had a person 
> written up by a realtor who allegedly crossed that 'scaring off buyers' line.
> 
> we're 'senior cohousing' community. any younger people generally get the 
> picture when they see all the geezers at dinner and hear us talk about 
> diseases and dementia as opposed to diseases and babies.
> 
> in the final analysis, the initial group is the only group that really gets 
> to self-select. 
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