Cohousing-L Mailing List: Eno Commons home for sale

[Dahako (Dahako]

Hi all- 

Here's your big chance! We have a home for sale at Eno Commons in Durham, North 
Carolina and the owners asked me to share the news.  Their flyer text is below 
and, on our web site, you can see a picture of the house and look at the floor 
plan (House A). 

If you are interested, contact info is in the text. 

Jessie Handforth Kome
Eno Commons
Durham, NC
"Where we celebrated St Paddy's with all the trimmings - including green 
applesauce."

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House for Sale

 A great home in a great community.  Bungalow style with open design, excellent 
use of space, and master suite on the 2nd floor (with 2 person shower!). Lots 
of extras and upgrades, including a composite deck in the rear with large 
storage/workshop beneath the deck.  Natural wood finish inside, lovely 
landscaping including rock walls and patio entrance.

 The home is very light and open inside, with passive solar design, geothermal 
heat pump and excellent insulation which combine to produce comfort in all 
seasons, and impressively low electric bills.  Front porch faces patio, rock 
wall, garden and pedestrian way.  Back deck overlooks wooded area and meadow, 
all part of the common land.  A walk along the Eno River is only 400 yards away.

 Located in northern Durham, off Umstead Road, the house is a part of Eno 
Commons, an established cohousing community.  See the flip side of this flyer.

 Highlights:
 ·   3 large bedrooms, 2 full baths, and a sky lit alcove/office/nursery.
 ·   Built in 1999 with quality construction, metal roof and 50 year siding.
 ·   Large rear deck and front patio/garden/walkway.
 ·   Easley Elementary School (top-rated, year-round calendar), Riverside High.
·    $189,000.

 Call John or Laura at (919) 382 7502, e-mail to Johnmorris [at] 
alumni.duke.edu or visit Eno Commons? Website  
(http://www.employees.org/~enoweb)

 What Makes Eno Commons Special?

 ·   A Beautiful Setting: A park-like neighborhood perfect for walking, with 
organic gardens, a meadow, woods, children?s play area and a woodland creek 
leading to the Eno River.

 ·   A Blend of Privacy and Community: Eno Commons offers the opportunity to 
have both the privacy of your own home and yard, and the option of gathering 
with neighbors in the Commons House or in the community gardens. The woods and 
creek-side offer beautiful spots for solitude or walks with friends

 ·   A Diverse Neighborhood: Our 22 households comprise a mix of people who are 
coupled and single, with kids and without, older and younger. We espouse no 
particular philosophy or ideology, other than the desire to live in a 
supportive and caring neighborhood.  We are accessible to people of all 
physical abilities: with the site plan, Commons House, and home designs all 
planned with accessibility and wheelchairs in mind. People of all ages, races, 
religious beliefs, and affectional preferences are invited to make Eno Commons 
their home.

 ·   A Good Place to Eat: Neighborhood meals offer at least two good things: a 
chance to eat home-cooked sit-down meals with good company, and a chance to
do the preceding without always having to spend time cooking.  We have Tuesday 
evening meals every week, a meal every other Sunday evening and parties for all 
occasions.

 ·   A Vibrant Place to Retire: Eno Commons combines a vibrant environment with 
the support that makes life easier. Golf courses, gyms, pools and other 
recreational facilities are within minutes of our neighborhood. World class 
medical facilities are just 10 minutes away.

 ·   Paradise for Children: Children learn what they live.  Our children are 
learning about independence, inter-dependence, diversity, ecology, consensus, 
and how to be good neighbors in a supportive community through
their every day experiences.  They clear their places at community meals, leave 
their shoes on all of our porches, run through the meadow with their friends, 
get homework help from all of us, follow animal tracks through the woods, or 
choose to be alone.  (The neighborhood is good for parents too - we spend a lot 
less time in our cars by pooling rides and not having to
 takes kids to as many play dates.)

 ·   Healthy Low-Maintenance, Efficient Homes:  To complement the passive solar 
design, each home at Eno Commons is heated and cooled by a geothermal 
(ground-source) heat pump, a very efficient, low maintenance heating and 
cooling system. Power bills are proving to be quite low.  Many other low 
maintenance features are included, and the homes were designed to minimize use 
of toxic materials.

 -   A Semi-rural Feeling, Just Minutes from Downtown and Major Highways: The 
beautiful features of Eno Commons' 11.2 acre site are preserved by a design
which focuses on people, not cars. By limiting the road, we create a 
neighborhood safer and more pleasant for children and adults and which 
preserves large portions of our land undisturbed for wildlife.
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