Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousing/Guest Ranch

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Does anyone know of a cohousing community that operates a bed & =
breakfast or guest ranch as part of the community?  Last weekend I went =
to a family reunion at my uncle's guest ranch in Texas.  They basically =
have a common house and 12 cabins.  In addition, they had a 24 stall =
barn, bunkhouse that sleeps 20, swimming pool, hot tub, volleyball, a =
smoke house, an RV park with 20 spots, and a pavilion big enough to seat =
a group of about 100 people at picnic tables.

The ranch is very profitable.  Church groups have dinners there on =
Sunday afternoons.  During the summer, they have several 3 day camps for =
kids.  And they have family reunions on weekends. =20

My uncle and his family work pretty hard to host big groups, but it =
seems like a cohousing community could spread that work between a lot =
more people pretty easily.  I'm thinking of a group of houses on one =
side of the common house for the full time residents with another set of =
houses on the other side of the common house rented out to groups.  It =
seems like the ranch could probably employ a quarter of the residents.

Has anyone done anything like this before?

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Sunday afternoons.&nbsp; During the summer, they have several 3 day =
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Cohousing/Guest Ranch	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Jeff Buscher (jbuscherblumeng.com)
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:03:32 -0600 (MDT)