Cohousing-L Mailing List: Visit a community with a home for sale in Oakland CA

[Phoebe Weiss (phoebeco]

Visit a Community with a Home for Sale
Saturday, June 17th 10am-11am
78 Garland Ave, Oakland CA

Garland Ave Cohousing is a mini-cohousing community in Adams Point, Oakland. We 
started the community when we bought a multi-family property and we have been 
working hard to build relationships with neighbors and grow our informal 
network of adjunct community members. A single-family home adjacent to ours 
will be available on July 1st. We're looking for someone who is interested in 
purchasing the property and becoming a part of our community. Ideally, we will 
find someone who shares our cohousing vision and would like to share outdoor 
space and community dinners. At the very least, we'd like to see the house 
purchased by a respectful and friendly neighbor.

About us:
We are a community of queer women and kids. Our grounds have mature fruit 
trees, amazing vegetable gardens and a patio under the grape arbor. The kids 
are often outdoors, picking berries and barreling down the driveway on 
scooters. Our community dinners are potluck, once a week, with a meeting and a 
work day once a month. We celebrate occasional Jewish holidays and host a 
neighborhood barbecue each year. From April through October, we eat on our 
shared patio. During the rainy season, we take turns hosting community dinners 
in our houses. We have been building our community for five years and we have 
great communication, mutual respect, and fun.

About the property for sale:
A home adjacent to our community is coming up for sale in July and we are 
looking for someone who can buy the house and bring it into our community. The 
house is about 1000 square feet, with two bedrooms and a large yard. (The house 
has also had work done to prepare for an extra bedroom and bathroom.) The house 
is on Fairmount Ave in Oakland, a residential neighborhood just outside Adams 
Point. The owner is a friend of the community and we'd love to help him find a 
great person to move into his home of twenty years. We expect that the property 
will list for $700,000. It will require some patience, diplomacy and creativity 
to link our yard with this one, but we have a plan!

About the neighborhood:
We are just outside Adams Point on a quiet residential street, close to Lake 
Merritt and downtown. We're within walking distance of restaurants, 
supermarkets, bus lines and 19th Street BART. We have made connections with 
many of our neighbors and they are a diverse, kind, interesting group of people.

We're inviting you to come see our community as it is now and meet some of the 
members. The available property will not be available to show until July, but 
don't wait until then. The house will sell quickly and if you want to get to 
know the community, there won't be time once it is on the market.

If you are unable to come to the tour, and you are seriously in the market for 
a house, please get in touch and we'll arrange a time for you to visit!
http://garlandave.weebly.com/