Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Incentive to formally dropout of forming group?

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorliz]

Our only incentive to withdraw was that, if you didn't, you were  
required to keep up with 5% of our increasing unit prices. That is,  
to stay active a person had to put in additional money when new  
budgets were approved.

Personally, I was frustrated by households that did not choose to  
withdraw. In one case a household that would have liked someone to  
buy-out their household expressed their opinion about whether my  
household could buy-out a different household and I found myself  
feeling hurt and angry.

But honestly, I don't think it actually hurt our group, and my  
situation was resolved well.


-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
PastorLiz [at] verizon.net
Mosaic-Commons
Moving in this FALL in Berlin, MA.
A few units still available!
www.sawyerhill.org


On Mar 9, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Kristen Simmons wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with providing incentives for equity
> members to formally drop out of the group when they know that they
> will not buy a unit?
>
> Has any group been in the situation where an equity member household
> knew that they would not buy a unit for whatever reason, but did not
> leave the group? Did this negatively affect the group?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kristen
> Stony Brook Cohousing, now forming in Boston, MA
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