Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: interview process

[Raines Cohen (coho-L]

brucefrishkoff [at] usa.net wrote on 4/29/99 7:51 AM:

>We would appreciate it if some of you would share your processes of
>interviewing prospective residents 

1. They attend a planning meeting.
2. They attend another planning meeting.
3. They pay $25-ish for an info packet, including all the past meeting 
minutes so they can unravel what our current rules are (and if they can, 
they're smarter than us, so we'd love to have 'em! ;-))
4. They declare their intent to join.
5. They pay $250-ish initial fee.
6. They pay $100 a month dues until we're done being an LLC and become an 
HOA.
7. They invest in our construction loan to the developer an amount 
nominally set at 10% of their unit price, or more or less. Or rather, 
they would have, as the loan has already been made.

Of course, we've been fully reserved for a year, with a waiting list, so 
it's been a while since we went through this process.

In other words, our 'interview' process is about _them_ accepting _us_ 
and feeling like they can live with us and handle the meetings, etc., 
rather than vice versa.

Raines

Raines Cohen <coho-L [at] raines.com> <http://www.swansway.com>
Member, Old Oakland [CA] Cohousing at Swan's Market & BoCoHo (new grp)
Support H.R. 1172 for historic tax credits for residential preservation!
Construction progressing nicely; move-in this Fall!