Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rewarding Early Adoption

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Charles, I can't answer your questions, but wanted to comment that even 
though it seems fair and reasonable to reward early adopters, nevertheless 
you may eventually be somewhat desperate to get your last units sold. You 
might end up wanting to entice later joiners rather than, in effect, 
penalizing them, since presumably the rewards given to early joiners come 
out of the pockets of later ones.

I recall that one of our members who joined in the latter part of our 
selling period was all for putting a surcharge on the remaining units, but 
the rest of us just wanted to get them sold and not make their 
affordability more daunting.  The last units all sold before any formal 
proposal for a surcharge came up, so we didn't have to make that decision.

   Muriel Kranowski
   Shadowlake Village Cohousing

At 09:12 PM 4/20/2009, you wrote:

> We are in the process of setting up a series of financial agreements.  The
> question arises, how much return on their original investment do we pay
> early adopters?  Their risk is much higher, of course.  Surely they should
> be compensated accordingly?
>
> What rates of return do you recommend, and according to what schedule?
>
> Any advice appreciated,
>
> Charles W. Nuckolls
> Utah Valley Commons
> www.utahvalleycommons.com
>
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