Cohousing-L Mailing List: Time requirements

[Mike Malone (mike]

As a member of a group that has moved in (Monterey or MoCoCo) and 
acted as our own developers, I'd like to the notion that having a 
developer is a good thing. Although we can't quantify this, my 
feeling is that at best we did not save any money and may have more 
expensive housing than if we had used a developer. Additionaly, we 
spent so much time and energy on developer tasks that we had little 
left over for design, energy efficiency, and community building.  We 
could not do everything and the development tasks were always the 
most time urgent.  This may relate more to our personal experience, 
as none of our group had any experience in development or the 
building trades. We were unable to find a developer willing to 
undertake the risk. 
Anyway, our road is now surfaced and we are starting the landscaping 
work


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Mike Malone
Cancer Control Section
Minnesota Department of Health
Internet address:  michael.malone [at] health.state.mn.us
Phone: (612)623-5670
Fax: (612)623-5520
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