Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 148, Issue 3 - new members

[Alan O'Hashi (adoecos]

based on fair housing laws i don't think any group can exclude qualified people.

if a buyer and seller agree, there's not much a community can do.

when distant extended families, estates and trusts get involved who could care 
less about cohousing it's particularly challenging.

here, if a person / family are close to buying, we ask that they attend a 
community meeting and a dinner to interact with members, have an orientation 
meeting with a small group of the community intelligencia to learn about the 
hoa structure, participation in community governance, tasks, etc.

dissuasion of buyers by members is a fine line to dance. we had a person 
written up by a realtor who allegedly crossed that 'scaring off buyers' line.

we're 'senior cohousing' community. any younger people generally get the 
picture when they see all the geezers at dinner and hear us talk about diseases 
and dementia as opposed to diseases and babies.

in the final analysis, the initial group is the only group that really gets to 
self-select.