Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Emergency Help Needed!!!

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

Ann Zabaldo NEW ADDRESS: coho [at] world.std.com   Takoma Village Cohousing
is the author of the message below ( on Apr 6) but due to a problem 
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it was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager:  fholson [at] cohousing.org

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to a woman named March who should have gotten the cc back on the 6th
(see copy of orig message at end). Fred

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March -- there's nothing magical about having "cohousing" in your name on
financial documents.  For the city, the bank, the seller, etc. we were just
another PUD, condo legal ownership, HOA, etc.  Takoma Village.  Period.
Very mainstream.

You can do all the work getting info on cohousing from reliable sources and
still not get what you want from Fannie Mae.  (BTW it's FannIE Mae.)

There's this great old saying I like:  sometimes its best to ride the horse
in the direction it's going.

I know it means a lot having "cohousing" as part of the name but you can
have it in your marketing materials and you can add it to your name once
your community is completed and your mortgages have been finalized.  The
important thing is to get your financing.

Ann Zabaldo

Takoma Village Cohousing
Here at the center of the universe in
Washington, DC.

"If you pick up a starving dog and
 make him prosperous,he will not bite you;
that is the principal difference between
a dog and a man."  Mark Twain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Marquez" <marchpower [at] worldnet.att.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Emergency Help Needed!!!


> Hello All Fellow Cohousers,
>
> I just got an alarming email from our Duwamish Cohousing Member &
> Project Manager (Kara) about Fanny Mae Problems.  Up until two weeks
> ago everything was going hunky-dory and they sent us the last list of
> small changes to our literature which they said they needed to give us
> approval.  Fanny Mae Approval is very important if we want lenders to
> lend us the money we need for our mortgages.  Anyway, the guy just
> called Kara back and basically said this:
>

> "....now the fellow is calling the whole concept into
> question--concern that it is just a fad, etc.  Suggesting we not call
> it cohousing, etc."
>

> So....we really, really need help fast on the following topics:
>

> "So, could you help me find 1) positive national articles about
> cohousing (recent are best), 2) lists of completed or under
> construction cohousing communities, and/or 3) ask other communities
> you know of what their FNMA approval number was (and hopefully, they
> had "cohousing" in their names."
>

> PLEASE PLEASE see if you can give us any help!  I will be sending
> internet site info I have for the "fellow" at Fanny Mae to look at to
> help them reconsider their perspective that it is only a fad.  But, WE
> REALLY NEED TO HEAR FROM SUCCESSFUL COHOUSING COMMUNITIES THAT GOT
> FANNY MAE APPROVAL WITH COHOUSING IN THEIR NAMES!!!
>

> Thanks!
> March
>
>
>
>
> March (Mama to Roman)
> "Live Simply"
>
>