Cohousing-L Mailing List: Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on cooperative households (Joanie Connors)

[Diana Leafe Christian (diana]

Hi Joanie,

        I’m so sorry to hear this, and didn’t realize your group had lost its 
land four years ago. If by cooperative housing you mean a shared group 
household (rather than literally a housing co-op) I highly recommend the book, 
The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life & Build Community 
by Janelle Orsi, a lawyer in California who specializes in helping people form 
organizations involving sharing houses, apartments, cars, and so on. She’s 
licensed to practice in California but can probably serve as a consultant in 
general (as compared to being licensed in NM to draw up documents) and perhaps 
can recommend a lawyer in NM who is familiar with shared housing. 
http://janelleorsi.com

        More books for sharing housing:
        My House Our House: Living Far Better for Far Less in a Cooperative 
Household, by Karen M. Bush and Louise S. Machinist (I’ve read this one too: 
it’s good)
        How to Start a Golden Girls Home, Bonnie Moore
        Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates, 
Annamarie Pluhar
        House Mates: A Guide to Cooperative Shared Housing, Lori Stephens

        But if you literally mean “cooperative housing” — a specific legal 
entity in which a group of people co-own housing or land (legal in all states), 
involving people owning shares and having separate occupancy agreements, I 
suggest asking the National Cooperative Housing Association in Washington DC to 
recommend lawyers who specialize in co-ops in New Mexico. http://coophousing.org
        Good luck, Joanie!
        Diana
        
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 08:22:35 -0700
> From: Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com>
> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: [C-L]_ Silver EcoCommunity?s demise, need info on cooperative
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> It?s been quite a while since I?ve posted about the activities of the
> planning group for the Silver EcoCommunity in Silver City, New Mexico. We
> lost our land 4 years ago. Two of us have kept the project on life-support
> for the last 3 years (we even looked at some nice land last fall), but we
> are now officially dissolved and our IC webpage is closed.
> 
> 
> Recently, as an individual, I have purchased a large house with a little
> house to the side and 2 acres. More and more, it seems right to explore
> cooperative households, where individuals own a property cooperatively.
> 
> 
> Does anyone here know anything about such things? A good lawyer to consult?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your inspiration and great information over the years! Do you
> think I should leave this list now?
> 
> 
> Joanie
> Silver City, NM