Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Telephone in the common house?

[Deborah Behrens (debbeh]

We have phone hookups in the Highline Crossing Common House, tho the only
actual phone at the moment is in the kitchen.  There are also hookups near
our sitting room and kids room and also in the basement I think.
It's good for contacting people around the community if you're in the CH.
It's good for new residents who are having problems getting their phones
installed (USWest is notoriously slow)
It's most good for a 'central' community number for queries about cohousing
and the community from outside (voice mail) - that way we don't have to have
the number change as people move in and out of the marketing team - and
anyone on the team can field the calls.
We don't yet have an office, or guest rooms in the common house, so the
phone hasn't yet been a priority for those needs.
We have long distance blocked.
Debbie Behrens, Highline Crossing, Littleton CO

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynn Nadeau [SMTP:welcome [at] olympus.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 6:46 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:      Telephone in the common house?
> 
> I took a telephone in the common house as a given, in our programming, 
> and imagine a lot of ways it might be useful. (Some of our 22 homes are 
> as much as three blocks from the common house, and several are out of 
> sight of it.) ( I assume long-distance blocking would not be a problem 
> and would preclude any financial abuse of the system.)
> 
> But some people are now questioning whether we should install a phone, 
> when we get to that point in the construction process. 
> 
> Have some of you actual experience of having a common house with or 
> without a telephone? With or without a computer that can go on line? 
> (another use for a phone line)
> 
> Thanks, 
> Lynn at RoseWind