Re: Sr Cohousing Hits Mainstream Investing: Motley Fool
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 06:35:06 -0700 (PDT)
I checked out the author of the Motley Fool article a bit
and wrote to the one cohousing community in Lansing, MI where the author
is located (one mile from his office!) (see copy of my messages below)

Note that Ann Arbor with 3 active cohousing communities is only 65
miles away.

Fred

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Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
     Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org

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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:27:36
From: Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
To: ggcohousing [at] gmail.com
Subject: Cohousing in Lansing / "Investment" article

Hello.

Fred Olson manager of the Cohousing-L email discussion here. Genesee
Gardens Cohousing (GCC) in Lansing, Michigan came to mind today because of
your location in Lansing.

Cohousing-L had a discussion yesterday about
"Sr Cohousing Hits Mainstream Investing: Motley Fool"
http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-l/msg44878.html
written by Kevin Vandenboss of
commercial real estate broker and president of Vandenboss Commercial.
120 N Washington Square Suite 303, Lansing, MI 48933

His portrayal of cohousing is sort of correct and sort of wrong...
Have you heard of him?

The consensus in the Cohousing-L discussion is that someone needs to
talk to him and set him straight - particularly on the aspect of
cohousing communities being self determinant - not an investment
opportunity in building something to which people are later recruited.
Otherwise many of us feel the use of the term cohousing is deceptive.

How is GCC doing? I see your directory entry has not been updated
since 2016 and has no website listed. I have been a big advocate of
Retrofit Cohousing.  Hope you are doing well.

Fred

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Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
     Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org

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