Cohousing-L Mailing List: resales

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

There are currently six available cohousing units in the Seattle/Puget Sound
area. Some of these, the highest priced ones, have been available for
awhile. Resales are mixed, and depend upon local economies, pricing, and the
community. There is a unit for sale in a SW cohousing group that has been on
the market more than two years now. There are units which sell overnight. My
advice, is you are worried about resales is to stay in the low priced
category, the higher priced units seem to be the ones that take the longest
to sell. I visited a group once that had 3 units for sale, one of which had
been empty a year. Not a good resale story. In some places, like the Bay
area, demand might be much higher than in other places.

I don't recommend starting a new group from scratch unless there are no open
places which work for you. In my experience, more than half of all start up
groups fail.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood, which has  some of the highest priced units on the market, but
they are actual houses with a huge greenbelt, and according to the local
economics, they are worth all that money. Of course we also have some rental
spaces also to balance it out. www.sharingwood.org



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From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org]On Behalf Of Robert P. Arjet
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:16 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Question from a non-Cohousing Interested Party


cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org writes:
> I tell all the people who
>want to get on our list of interested buyers.
<snip>
> get involved with a cohousing group that is not
>yet built, or start one of your own, if you're serious about wanting to
>live
>in cohousing.

Let me add one point to what Liz said above (which might otherwise sound a
little discouraging).  While starting your own cohousing group might seem
daunting, it is going to have a much higher success rate, in a much
shorter time, than joining a waiting list.  I don't know what the exact
number are, but the following is true:  Virtually all of people who join
waiting lists this month will still be on waiting lists five years from
now.  On the other hand, a significant number of people who start their
own cohousing groups this month--and work very hard for a long time--will
be living in cohousing five years from now.

Robert Arjet
Central Austin Cohousing
http://www.austincohousing.org
(where we just had a very exciting workshop with Kelly ScottHanson, who
tells us we're much further along than we thought)

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