Berkeley Cohousing Open House for rental cottage February 9, 2008

Who should come:
We're delighted to welcome anyone who is seriously considering living in community and who can afford the rent on and squeeze into the 1 bedroom plus loft cottage that is available for rent here.

Why:
This is a rare opportunity to see Berkeley Cohousing and tour one of the units; openings happen infrequently.

Join us at Berkeley Cohousing from 3-5 PM Saturday for a rare open house with a home available for rent in our sustainable community.

here's an announcement of an Open House the afternoon Saturday Feb. 9th; this may be the only chance to see the unit and the Common House and community, and an opportunity to pick up applications.

We'd love for someone interested in community participation to join us.

A Berkeley Cohousing neighbor just wrote up some description of who lives here:
Currently there are about 30 residents (more if you count significant others, extended family, associate members, etc.) ranging in age from 78 to 6 months. We include (but aren't limited to) a geriatric care manager, database administrator, former editor of the Cohousing Journal, bookkeeper, manager of a cooperative eco-friendly cleaning service, a teacher and also a dean at a local community college, cultural anthropologist, teacher of math teachers, alternative transportation consultant, two senior cohousing consultants, Unitarian church administrator, nursing student, owner of a window-cleaning business, family visitation supervisor, geriatric personal attendant, financial planner, product manager, retired technical writer and retired social worker.

There are currently 8 children living in the community: ages 15, 10, three 6-year-olds, 4, 1, and 6 months.

We have occasional work parties and building projects. We celebrate everyone's birthdays together. The Common House is used for many events such as movie nights, Balkan folk music concerts, housecleaner training, family get-togethers, bookkeeper training meetings, to name a few.

Children are a big part of the community. Parents share childcare, carpools and parenting life. Older kids babysit, mow the lawn and wash cars.

Community members have supported each other through a long development process, and through births, marriages, graduations, great adventures, illnesses, and death.

We would love to have neighbors who are familiar with cohousing principles and are choosing this lifestyle, are financially independent with a stable income; who value our three community meals a week and are willing to participate in cooking and cleaning rotations; who are willing to participate in our monthly general meetings and work on a committee.

Official Website: http://www.ebcoho.org/