Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Increase in housing values: A boon or disaster for cohousing?

[ken (gebser]

Sharon Villines wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Robert Heinich wrote:
>
> > Sharon Villines, Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC said "We had 
> > to run
> > a brothel out of the building behind us ".
> >
> > Was the brothel a community business or did you force the brothel to 
> > leave
>
> Very funny!
>
> It was actually very frustrating because the neighbors all knew what 
> was going on but the city inspector had to witness the events and 
> somehow that just never happened. For months. the Apple Spa was 
> functioning with reportedly wall to wall beds with lovely Asian women 
> on them. Downstair is the Chinese take-out many of us went to for food.
>
> It has been a real lesson in how hard it is to maintain a neighborhood 
> that is on the edge, tipping up or down.
>
> We have some members who resent the limitations of living in a historic 
> district and think it is silly since we do have pockets of things that 
> are anything but historic. If we didn't have that designation, however, 
> we would be run over with traffic and drugs.
>
> ...

So are they still there?  Or, if not, how did you get them out?