Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: buying existing building

[Loren Davidson (loren]

At 01:25 PM 10/13/97 -0500, Jerry Jordan McIntire wrote:
>I am with a small group interested in finding an apt or other building
>to convert to cohousing. We want to end up with 4-12 individual units
>after converting 2-3 units to common space. I would like to hear from
>groups that have done something similar, especially about the question
>of converting rental housing to cohousing ownership.

Los Angeles Eco-Village is in the middle of doing this very thing with a 40
unit building.  I don't have any of the details as to how it's going, but
you can reach them at crsp [at] igc.apc.org.

Loren,
who occasionally finds something worthwhile to add to the discussion
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