Cohousing-L Mailing List: Port Townsend WA co-home for sale, quick!

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

RoseWind Cohousing has a recently-built resale small home for sale, for 
$119,500. 

Port Townsend Washington is a very cool place. For the visitors, it is a 
Victorian Seaport with wonderful buildings, and shops,  and history and 
festivals. For those who live here, it is a town of 8000 with an 
astonishing quantity of music, art, theater, children's activities, 
dances of all sorts, family-owned businesses, natural food stores and 
locally grown organic produce. Kind of a college town without a college. 
Mild climate. Same rainfall as San Francisco (18 " a year). Water and 
mountains not far away. 

RoseWind Cohousing started ten years ago. We are 20 families, on nine 
acres of land right close to everything in town. Half the land is 
commons, and half is in individual home sites, with houses that have each 
been designed to the owners' budget and tastes. 
A big vegetable garden on the commons offers plots for gardeners, and our 
common house is designed and will start construction this year. We have 
an interim common space which we use for weekly community dining and 
monthly meetings. 

The re-sale home that is available will sell fast. The owner has listed 
it with a local real estate agent: the one previous time this unit was 
thus listed, it sold in one day! We would love to have a new owner who is 
seeking cohousing. Price is $119,500. 

It's a really nice small house, featured in Jim Tolpin's recent "Cottage 
Homes" book. It's about 800 square feet, and designed so that two more 
rooms could easily be added on. The layout has a sunny main room with 
kitchen, dining and living areas combined. Marble counters and wooden 
cabinetry in the kitchen area, radiant floors throughout. Off the main 
room there is a bedroom, and there is also a bathroom, a back hall with 
pantry and closet space, and a mechanical room for the washer and 
dryer.The house is super-insulated, and is finished in a grey stucco with 
ground up seashells on the surface. No stairs, level entry.  Lots of 
landscaping work, flagstone patio.  

It's close by the common house site, and has private parking by the 
house. 

This would be a super place for a single person, or for a small family 
who want to economize.  Or use it to try us out, without going through 
building a house: this house should be easy to resell without losing 
anything, if a family wanted to buy or build a larger home later at 
RoseWind, or move elsewhere.  RoseWind Cohousing is full of wonderful 
people, creative energy,  and great cooks. And Port Townsend is a 
delightful place to live. Come join us!

For more on Port Townsend see www.ptguide.com
For more on RoseWind, see http://olypen.com/~sstowell/rosewind

RoseWind also has a few more unbuilt lots for sale.

You can learn more by  email       welcome [at] olympus.net
or phoning me Lynn at (360) 385-7749