Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: cordless phone, answering machine in the common house?

[Robert (robert]

At Eno Commons, we have a regular corded phone with no answering service. 
As the person who use to check for messages, I do not recommend the message 
service. When we had the answering service, I checked every day and usually 
there was no messages.  However, when someone did leave a message (despite 
me telling them in the outgoing message that I only checked the messages 
once a day and gave my phone # but please only call me during the day 
between 9 am and 9 pm), they expected an more immediate response or called 
me late at night.  It was either a waste of my time at best or an 
aggravation when they called me at night.  We do not have an answering 
service and it is cheaper and I am happier.

We currently have a corded phone but I believe a case could be made for a 
portable phone so you can move to quieter location to hear the call.

BTW, if you do get a phone, your Common House is considered a commercial 
building so you will need to pay the phone company the more expensive 
business rate.

-Robert Heinich
Eno Commons Cohousing Neighborhood
Durham, NC
where we just celebrated EnoWeen and pictures will soon be posted to our 
website


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Whatley" <terry.whatley [at] gmail.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ cordless phone, answering machine in the common house?


> Searching the archives, I see a lot of support for having a phone in the 
> CH.
> Do any of you have experience pro or con of having a cordless phone as
> the common house phone, and of having it take messages or not?
>
> thanks,
> sarito
> (make it happen person for the common house phone, Nevada City CoHo,
> where they've just paved the driveway in our parking area)
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