Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: New Members

[zabaldo (zabaldo]

Actually I see that I should have titled this:   List Subject Organization or 
something.  I did NOT mean to start yet another thread under “ new members” 
which is exactly what I did.

Apologies.  Trying to correct one thing I put foot in mouth.  Ick.  Tastes 
awful!


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 9:55 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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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