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Membership Team
Revised 02/26/20
Selling your Heartwood home? Consider a financial gratuity donation to the community, in support of our efforts to help members sell their homes. How does the Membership Team help you sell your home? Find out here.
The Membership Team maintains community listings at the Cohousing Association website, the Intentional Communities website, and the Global Ecovillage Network website promoting the Heartwood Cohousing community in general, but as a community, we do not pay for advertising individual homes for sale or rent. That’s up to the home sellers or landlords, if they so choose.
The Membership Team does maintain a What’s Available section on this website, where we will create an individual listing for your home based on information and photos that you provide. Please see examples of other listings there and send the Membership Team information that will easily fit into that format.
Beside the marketing work of the Membership Team, it is recommended that you take independent initiative to sell or lease your home. Here are some ideas:
Please keep in mind that selling or renting a home at Heartwood is first and foremost about selling the community as well as the home.
As a general rule, it has been found that real estate agents are not effective in selling community homes because they are not at all familiar with the idea of selling community rather than selling homes, and they are not connected to the community network where the likely buyers come from.
Revised 02/26/20
Selling your Heartwood home? Consider a financial gratuity donation to the community, in support of our efforts to help members sell their homes. How does the Membership Team help you sell your home? Find out here.
The Membership Team maintains community listings at the Cohousing Association website, the Intentional Communities website, and the Global Ecovillage Network website promoting the Heartwood Cohousing community in general, but as a community, we do not pay for advertising individual homes for sale or rent. That’s up to the home sellers or landlords, if they so choose.
The Membership Team does maintain a What’s Available section on this website, where we will create an individual listing for your home based on information and photos that you provide. Please see examples of other listings there and send the Membership Team information that will easily fit into that format.
Beside the marketing work of the Membership Team, it is recommended that you take independent initiative to sell or lease your home. Here are some ideas:
- Post flyers at natural food stores, coffee shops, etc., advertising your home.
- Send periodic posts to coho-l. Coho-l is a national chat list of people specifically interested in cohousing. It’s free and goes right to our target market. You may need to subscribe to coho-l before posting, if so, go to the coho-l website.
- Send periodic posts to the Heartwood community chat and the Phase 2 chat. Lots of folks interested in Heartwood subscribe to those chat lists. You do need to be a member of those lists to post to them.
- Place a classified ad at the Cohousing Association website.
- Place a classified ad at the Intentional Communities website.
- Place a classified ad in the Communities magazine. Send an email to the magazine for more information. There are usually copies of the magazine in the common house.
- Post a listing on the craigslist website.
Please keep in mind that selling or renting a home at Heartwood is first and foremost about selling the community as well as the home.
As a general rule, it has been found that real estate agents are not effective in selling community homes because they are not at all familiar with the idea of selling community rather than selling homes, and they are not connected to the community network where the likely buyers come from.