Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Members at a distance

[Rob Sandelin (robsan]

At Sharingwood anyone anywhere can become an associate phase II member 
by coming to visit once and making a $5,000 option agreement payment.  
In order to maintain a place in the lot selection Queue. a prospective 
member must do 40 hours of community service annually, otherwise they 
go to the bottom of the lot selection queue.

We have one? (not sure if she actually followed through) person who 
lives far away and who is an associate member. At Sharingwood  If you 
are not at the meeting where a decision is made, you don't have a voice 
in the decision.  We use our newsletter to publicize what decisions are 
going to be made.  In the past five years NOT ONE person who lived out 
of state ever actually followed through and bought a lot and built a 
home here or lasted more than 5-6 months as out of state members.  
Consequently, we have little faith in folks from out of state actually 
ever becoming our neighbors. Could happen maybe, hasn't yet for us.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood