Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohesiveness of community after a sale?

[Christine Cook Mania (christine.d.cook]

We're forming a new cohousing community and we are thinking about how to
maintain the cohesiveness of the community when someone sells their unit.
We want to ensure the new buyer is committed to being an active participant
of the community and would like some review of the prospective buyer before
the sale is completed. We have come up with three different options:

   1. One of the ideas we are considering is for our community to have the
   "right of first refusal" to buy the unit. For any community that does
   establish a "right of first refusal" on the sale of a unit, what do you do
   to actually exercise it?
   2. Another way is to maintain a waiting list of qualified buyers.
   3. And another way is to add something to our by-laws requiring the
   approval of the "condo association" of the buyer.

We are curious to know what existing communities are doing?

Warmly,
Christine


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