Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Resales- are waiting lists worth it?

[Marya S. Tipton (sundog]

After nearly two years of searching, Hundredfold Farm cohousing finally has
a site! We now have contract on an 80-acre Christmas Tree farm in the
rolling foothills of the Appalachians near Gettysburg, Pa.
We have 6 committed households, with a total of about 12 active households.
We are aiming for a total of 15. We will be the first cohousing community in
PA.
Calloo, Callay!!
Peace,
Marya Tipton
Hundredfold Farm
Orrtanna, PA
http://users.desupernet.com/rhubarb
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>From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous [at] email.msn.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
>Subject: RE: Resales- are waiting lists worth it?
>Date: Fri, Nov 19, 1999, 3:27 AM
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> The trouble with waiting lists is that they need to be updated regularily in
> order to be valuable. The names more than 6-12 months old are probably not
> still interested. If you attach some conditions to being on this list, such
> as must attend 3 events, then perhaps the quality of the list will be
> better. At Sharingwood we don't have any waiting lists going, and still get
> two to three tourists a month, some of whom seem really interested but we
> make no effort to keep their contact info. We had a rental opening this
> month which I think was open for two days before a couple different people
> inquired and one moved on it. It was pure word of mouth advertising. We have
> not had any problems selling any of the 5 homes for sale in the past two
> years, in fact, not one of them made to the official market, although one
> did get marketed by the owner in cohousing-l and a couple other more local
> cohousing channels.
>
> We could have a waiting list if anybody wanted to put the energy into it,
> nobody does and so we don't.
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Northwest Intentional Communties Association
> Building a better society, one neighborhood at a time
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