Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Would a cohousing/guest ranch make sense?

[lilbert (lilbert]

I think this is a great idea. I remember seeing pictures of a community 
owned by people who lived separately, but were going to retireand live there
together. I don't remember anything like you mentioned, though.

You could also have a guest ranch that is separate from the community, run
by hired help. The community could use it for retreats and individuals or
small groups could use it for vacations. The rest of the time it would be
rented out and the proceeds could pay the mortgage. Profits could either be
put into the community (making it not non profit) or could be used for
charities.

I've always wanted something like this for our community so we could get out
of the city for breaks. It would be super ultra cool to have one as a
regional resource for several cohousing groups!

--
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California

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>From: "Jeff Buscher" <jbuscher [at] blumeng.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
>Subject: Would a cohousing/guest ranch make sense?
>Date: Wed, Jul 26, 2000, 6:34 PM
>

> I sent this yesterday, but I don't think it went out.  I didn't receive a
> copy of it.
> If this is your second one, I'm sorry.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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