Cohousing-L Mailing List: Support of CH and Monthly Fees [was: Private House Size Survey

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 5:24 PM, Beverly Jones Redekop <beverly.jones.redekop 
> [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> In your Zillow survey, could you figure out the ratio of number of units to
> size of amenities?  

I didn’t do that much detail and it would have been hard because the listings 
don’t show that much. The big difference is that the CH is space and 
conventional condos typically have services with the newer once having common 
amenities.

> We have 33 units supporting a 3900 s.f. common house
> (and a creek restoration and a workshop once we clean up our development
> woes). There's a fancy new development proposed in the area with a 4600
> s.f. clubhouse and pools, but it will be supported by 125 units. We have
> 118 s.f. of commons per unit while they have 36.
> 
> If we can’t be reliable with our monthly work hours, we'll tank, because no
> conventional strata would plan a 33 unit to 3900 s.f. amenity ratio unless
> it advertised itself as extremely swanky and expensive from the beginning.

This is very swanky but 125 units to that amount of space is still large. One 
of our consultants said it would take 400 units to support the 4,800 SF CH  we 
have.

Also, in conventional condos, there are often fees related to using clubhouse 
spaces.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org