Cohousing-L Mailing List: Reserve funding levels

[Terri Hupfer (terri]

Our community, Pleasant Hill
Cohousing, is located in the Bay Area of California. Ev n though state 
regulations in CA require a minimum of 10% fully funded for a reserve account 
we have always kept ours significantly higher. I would love to hear from other 
communities what their minimum reserve percentages are, particularly those 
located in CA or in urban areas such as D.C. Or Boston that might have similar 
costs for replacement.
Thanks,
Terri Hupfer 
Pleasant Hill Cohousing

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>   1. Re: SHort Term Rentals (Eris Weaver)
>   2. Re: SHort Term Rentals (Sharon Villines)
>   3. 2 homes available at New Brighton Cohousing in Aptos
>      California (fernselzer [at] aol.com)
>   4. Recommended resource (sannamckim1 [at] gmail.com)
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> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 06:32:39 -0700
> From: Eris Weaver <eris [at] erisweaver.info>
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ SHort Term Rentals
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>> Does your cohousing community permit short term (think AirBnB) rentals?If 
>> so, what process, conditions, do you require?If you do not permit them, why 
>> not?I'm sure we're not the only group wrestling with this question!
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> We don't. One, our city zoning forbids it. Two, it essentially changes the 
> nature of our community transactions - think consumers versus guests. Three, 
> one of our members started doing it (without talking with anyone beforehand, 
> which was its own issue) and it was awful! Drunk strangers making noise in 
> the parking lot, locking themselves out of the house, bothering esidents.
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> Eris, in the airport en route to the conference!
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 09:56:48 -0400
> From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ SHort Term Rentals
> Message-ID: <414D4458-6868-444A-8E20-479EE715105B [at] sharonvillines.com>
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> We don?t allow it ? the bylaws say no "transient? rentals for the same 
> reasons Eris mentioned. ?Transient? according to web searches is generally 
> interpreted to mean a month or less; some even six months.
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> A community can?t be a community and a hotel at the same time. Particularly 
> not a hot-bed hotel.
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> There is a good thread on this in the archives. 
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> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 11:46:07 -0400
> From: fernselzer [at] aol.com
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: [C-L]_ 2 homes available at New Brighton Cohousing in Aptos
>    California
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> Here is a great opportunity for living in cohousing in Aptos, California, 
> near Santa Cruz.  
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> The reason that both are coming up for sale at the same time is because  both 
> owners have been waiting for our loan options to open up, which they have 
> recently.  We are a TIC and we used to be on a group loan, now we have 
> finally worked out how to get individual loans.  One is listed on 
> cohousing.org and here is the description below.
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> 2 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths, 1100 square feet, deck, front and back yards
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> Live in an eco-home in the New Brighton Cohousing community--a beautiful, 
> comfortable house finished with natural materials, close to the beach, and 
> surrounded by neighbors you know!
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> New Brighton Cohousing is an active co-housing community with 22 members from 
> ages 2 to 81.  We are located in Aptos California, a suburb of Santa Cruz.  
> There are 11 townhomes and a common house around a central yard.  The 1600 
> square foot common house has a shared kitchen, dining room, guest rooms, and 
> laundry.  There is a play room and outdoor play ground for the children and a 
> community garden and fruit trees.  We have two community meals per week and 
> informal social events.  The property is owned jointly under a tenants in 
> common agreement.
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> We are just across the street from AJ's Market and Natural Foods, half a 
> block to Cabrillo Fitness Club and pool, on a bus line to downtown Santa 
> Cruz, and a 15 minute walk to Cabrillo College or New Brighton State Beach 
> and the ocean.  Cabrillo has plays, concerts, lectures, and the best farmers 
> market in the Santa Cruz area--fresh organic fruit and produce all year.
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> The second home is a similar townhouse and was nicely upgraded, but  less 
> recently.
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> The contact agent is Judy Ziegler and her email is judyz [at] pacbell.net.  
> Online  www.cornucopia.com
> I think there are going to be open houses every weekend for the next few 
> weeks.
> These homes should sell quickly because of the housing shortage around here.  
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 15:46:22 -0400
> From: sannamckim1 [at] gmail.com
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: [C-L]_ Recommended resource
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> Hi all,
> After 10 years involved in self-developing Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage, 
> marked for me with some serious and in retrospect unnecessary growing pains 
> that cost us dearly, I'd like to recommend an invaluable resource I wish we'd 
> had earlier. It?s an online course excellent for forming communities who want 
> to avoid some of the painful process pitfalls we experienced, but at least as 
> valuable for anyone disturbed by the state of our world and interested in 
> human and planetary sustainability. 
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> Bright Future Now is an easily accessible journey into the core inner and 
> outer skills our times require. It?s led several times a year by Robert 
> Gilman, a former resident of Winslow Cohousing, astrophysicist, co-founder of 
> the Global Ecovillage Network, and founder and former editor of Context 
> Institute?s award-winning journal, IN CONTEXT, A Quarterly of Humane 
> Sustainable Culture. Robert is a gem to experience as teacher. Great short 
> videos worth viewing can be found at http://www.context.org/ 
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> The course is both very personal and global at the same time. My own cohort 
> of "Explorers"  consists of folks from Scotland , S.Africa, Senegal, Holland, 
> D.C., WA state, Maine, and more. Explorers, having been introduced to a 
> shared language and body of knowledge about ourselves and our times, become 
> part of a vibrant growing network of folks who will, in myriad and unknown 
> ways, work toward a sustainable future. It's heartwarming and hopeful, 
> practical and useful in an integrated way that just works.
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> As a soon-to-be alum, I invite you to familiarize yourself with this unusual 
> resource that has truly changed my outlook on our times. I especially love 
> the thought of many more taking this special journey to help us transition as 
> a species to the planetary era. In cohousing and elsewhere.
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> The next course runs from July 15 to August 26 with registration closing July 
> 1.
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> Happy to discuss this more with anyone. I can be reached at:
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> Sanna McKim (co-founder, Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage)
> 207-505-1633
> Sanna [at] mainecohousing.org
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