Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: COHOUSING-L digest 15

[TCCCOHO (TCCCOHO]

Hi Coho Friends,  We are encountering a problem - how to incentivize asso.
members to convert to full.  Current policy says they can stay as long as
they want as assos, participate at gen. mtgs. serve on committees, come to
workshops and social events and express their views as any full member.  The
only thing they can't do is block consensus.  They pay $50 quarterly dues,
that's it.  Problem - we love them but we need to grow to 24 full members for
our developer to start building & we only have 18 mos to do it.  If new
prospects see so many asso members, they may conclude that they'll just wait
'till there is less risk before they make the $1,500 Initial Commitment and
$500/mo payment that fulls do. How do others incetivize people to take the
financial risk to join as fulls?  Choice of home location is only current
incentive we have.    Thanks, Mino Sullivan, Commonweal Village