Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Group control, members v investors

[Matt Lawrence (matt]

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Rob Sandelin wrote:

> So you need to walk extra carefully around this issue, it can be a community
> breaker. One problem I have seen in some forming cohousing groups is that
> there really isn't enough sense of togetherness to build the kind of trust
> where people feel good about trusting largish sums of money. In groups that
> have a high level of togetherness, this trust seems to come much  quicker
> and less painfully and with much less fear and remorse.

I bailed from one group when I felt some unworkable decisions were being
railroaded through.  They're now actively looking for people again.
Sorry, my trust has been abused to much already, I'm not interested.

-- Matt