Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Budgets before finding a site

[Alice Alexander (alicecohous]

Many thanks to Lisa Poley for sharing more information and correcting the
original post from Susan Adams, who has been especially generous with her
time in sharing many posts about her community's development.
Coho-l serves as a online community, and as a community, we should all feel
comfortable sharing, and challenging and correcting and supporting with our
ideas and experiences, in a respectful and kind manner.
Alice Alexander, Coho/US Executive Director

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Virgil Huston <virgil.huston1955 [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Way to throw your client under the bus. That should have been handled
> internally and privately, then letting the original poster make any
> corrective posts. That was unbelievably unprofessional and
> self-serving. Damn.
> Virgil
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Lisa Poley <lpoley [at] vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > HI All -
> >
> > I am working as the Cohousing Consultant to the Jubilee Cohosuing group
> and
> > I would like to clarify and correct the earlier post from Susan Adams.
> >
> > The information that she posted is not an accurate representation of the
> > groups ProForma budget (which is a working  estimate of likely breakdown
> of
> > overall project costs to completion).
> >
> > The actual Proforma Budget estimates for completing the project are
> > substantially higher than the number posted in Susan's email (I am not
> > entirely sure where she got the information she posted - but it seems
> that
> > there was some sort of (well intentioned) misunderstanding.
> >
> > Sorry to have to be the one to provide the disappointing news that no -
> it
> > is not realistic to expect to build a 15 unit project for 1.3 million!
> >
> > All best,
> >
> > Lisa
> >
> >
> >
> > Lisa Poley
> > Village Resources LLC.
> > lisap98 [at] gmail.com
> > 540 250-7032
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Susan Adams <sadams430 [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Jane,
> >> Here are percentages from our pro forma budget for Jubilee in Floyd
> >> Virginia.  Out cost of living is much lower than in most parts of the
> >> country so I think percentages would be more helpful than actual
> numbers.
> >>
> >> Our total proforma budget is 1,355,666.   Of that we have allocated
> >> 18.07% for Land and Insurance
> >> 25.82% for Site development and Landscaping
> >> 18.44% for Professional Services
> >> 1.25% for Permits and Fees
> >> 14.51% for Financing
> >> 3.02% for Sales and Membership
> >> 11.49% for Contingencies
> >> 7.38% for the first phase of a common house.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps, and good luck to you all
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Jane Mueller <
> >> MissionPeakCohousing [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > As a forming group in search of a site, we need to put together a
> budget
> >> > and set an appropriate membership fee and dues schedule. Does anyone
> >> have a
> >> > pro forma budget appropriate for BEFORE you purchase property and
> begin
> >> > construction? (Our search on "budget" turns up information for groups
> >> that
> >> > are farther along in the process than we are.)
> >> >
> >> > Many thanks!
> >> > Jane Mueller for Mission Peak Cohousing in Fremont
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Alice Alexander
Executive Director
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