Shane Strano

Shared vehicles Another common fixture in cohousing. you should start tracking your car use metrics. Something like Month Day of the week No. of hours not parked in front of your house And Number of trips Ex: December Saturday 3 + 4 hours = 7 hours in total 2 trips in other words , " During ice skating season I leave around 10 am , drop my kid off, run errands all day Saturday and finally rest at 7 pm. I come back home to eat lunch and unwind 1 pm - 3 pm " Once you map it out you can...

What should you have built into your buildings walls? Very very little id almost go against installing a stove in the counters so you can upgrade it easier. ( Exaggeration but you get what I mean ) Its possible to have the perfect speaker setup with the perfect TV specs done right the first time but more often than not you'll end needing a replacement or wanting an upgrade and it's more limiting to have stuff built-in to the walls This also goes for the private homes as well because you can...

Outside help For urban CoHousing there are tons of tasks that need to take place to maintain the building and some are worth doing yourself while others are not. General cleaning Can be done on a rotating basis or done by a committee .it's very labor intensive even with machines so extremely busy people probably aren't the best candidates. You can have one person physically do all the cleaning or have somebody create a cleaning system that involves everybody doing a small part. A cleaning...