Re: Renters in Cohousing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Bonnie Fergusson (fergyb2yahoo.com) | |
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 08:30:15 -0700 (PDT) |
We’ve had mostly good luck with our renters, a few have been less participatory but most are enthusiastic cohousers and several have gone on to purchase and become owners when a unit becomes available. We usually only have one unit rented but we have sometimes rental roommates in owner occupied units. We’ve been up and running 21 years and had very little turnover the first 15 or so years with more these last few years as we age and some original owners die or move into assisted living places when they get very ill. We’ve gotten smarter about maintaining a list of interested folk and doing regular tours so we maintain a good pool of potentially interested folk. The Bay area is a very expensive real estate market which makes it hard so not all interested folk can afford the units that become available so renting is a good first step. Our renters can participate in all ways except decision making about spending money, budgeting etc.Bonnie FergussonSwans Market CohousingOakland, California Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Friday, July 30, 2021, 8:02 AM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote: We've only rarely had truly involved renters, although we wish they would be. In fact they often proclaim their great desire to be involved when they sign the rental lease, and that's the last we see of them. This is a college town and most renters are grad students who stay for one year or occasionally longer, and they usually are totally involved with their academics and the social life with their peers that goes along with being a grad student. You can lead a renter to the Common House but you can't make them eat there. Muriel at Shadowlake Village On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 8:49 AM Zev Paiss <zevpaiss [at] gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your varied responses. I expect nothing less. > > I this situation the owners are private people in many ways and do not > want to share their lives with their renter. It seems that they simply > never shared the shared meal option with her and felt invaded when another > resident invited their renter to participate. Honestly I had not > experienced this before as the general expectation is that owners would > find renters who wanted to be an active partisans in the community. > > Zev Paiss > Boulder, CO > 720-925-5161 > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://L.cohousing.org/info
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Re: Renters in Cohousing Fiona Frank, July 30 2021
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Re: Renters in Cohousing Fiona Frank, July 30 2021
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Re: Renters in Cohousing Muriel Kranowski, July 30 2021
- Re: Renters in Cohousing Bonnie Fergusson, July 30 2021
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