Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Here's my Visoin. Has anyone ever thought of a co-housing park-model park?

[carrol crawford (ananda.silver]

Thanks for these great ideas.  I'm going to do some research on deeding "
condo- lots" as part of a whole parcel.  Whats really getting popular is
deededRV lots.  In some resorts they are extremely expensive.  If I had
investment money I would see a huge future in this idea.  Know anyone?

Ananda


On 1/14/08, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 13, 2008, at 9:30 PM, carrol crawford wrote:
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> > I'd call it  *Small-ville*. --Each unit having enough space to do
> > some gardening, and have some space between houses.  Common paths,
> > gardens, permaculture, etc.
>
> I once subscribed to a Yahoo! group on tiny homes. I can't remember
> the right name but you can search and find it. They were talking about
> single house development but might give you other ideas as well. They
> are particularly strong on designing very small homes efficiently --
> like four people and a dog in 600 sq ft.
>
> http://www.parkmodelexpress.com/index.htm
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> For anyone who hasn't looked at RVs recently (I've never seen anything
> not built in the 50's) take a look. For $25,000 to $45,000, you have a
> complete and _beautiful_ home. I couldn't find anything about square
> footage, insulation, or energy efficiency but you can send for more
> information.
>
> > You'd need someone to buy the lot, the individuals could buy
> > their own Park Model,or cabin. or build small houses.
>
> Why not use a condominium structure for the land. Then each person
> would purchase and own a percentage of the total land. The prospective
> owners write "condo docs" that specify exactly what people own and
> what they can do with it, so you can limit the size of homes and
> things like that.
>
> Then you could use the standard cohousing model of selling the units
> before you buy and construct the infrastructure on land. Do banks give
> mortgages on RVs? It seems they might at least on the land development
> (electricity, water, and plumbing).
>
> Then you would probably be able to negotiate with a dealer to purchase
> a number of homes at the same time and get discounts. Since the homes
> are trucked from the factory, I would check to see what a truck
> carries and see if you can order a truck load. Or two.
>
> I think this is a wonderful idea.
>
> Sharon
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