Happy 2012!

We put an offer on 947 Page St. back in October. What an exciting and in-depth learning experience it was. We just heard that the building sold, which means that our offer wasn’t accepted. (Granted it has been over two months, and our broker said “no news is probably not good news”… but you never know, and some of us were keeping our fingers crossed.) We’re looking forward to the next one.

We’re a bit slow getting back up to speed after that exciting experience followed by the holidays. Once we settle on our next meeting date, we’ll get that info out asap. Maybe a ‘New Year’ potluck would be fun!

Happy New Year!      Peace, Happiness, and Blessings for 2012 -

 

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

947 Page Street

We’ve had a few working meetings since the last post, and another scheduled for November. We really need to schedule an open meeting to meet any new, interested folks.

In the meantime, we’ve found a wonderful building that will work perfectly for our group. Check it out here: 947 Page St.

Our next meeing is currently scheduled for Sunday 09/11

We’re meeting early to have time to go to Sunday Streets, happening in nopa this time around.

This will be a working meeting and we typically reserve the last hour for visitors and guests – from 1-2pm (we’ll verify this time as the date gets closer). 

Friday’s Potluck was great – we met two new families: Lee, Gillis, and their 2 daughters; & Allen, Jamie and their son. Since we’re at the stage of buying property, it’s nice that both families have been considering buying in our wonderful, expensive city… and hopefully they believe like we do that there’s an economy-of-scale value to buying property as a group.

Use the contact us page to get directions to our next meeting.

 

 

 

****Potluck Gathering on Friday, August 26th @ 5:30pm****

We had been meeting monthly for some time, every third Sunday; but our summer schedules shook that up a bit. We’re going to start meeting regularly again – please come join us Friday for a re-grouping.

 

Use the contact us page to get directions.

still under construction

We’re starting to get feedback on things that would make this site better. Please know that the site is days old at this point and it’s taking us some time to put it all together. That said, please keep sending suggestions on how we can make it better – thank you!

thanks for checking us out!

Quick background:

one of our former members developed a vision of creating child-centered co-housing in san francisco, ultimately taking down all the fences on a city block as previous groups have done – such as (N Street Cohousing in Davis). Our current group was distilled down from some hundred or so folks who attended several of her open-invitation meetings in fall/winter 2009. Since then, the current group has been working hard creating the San Francisco Backyard Neighborhood & Learning Center community. We’ve made visioning documents, a decision making policy, a communication policy, etc…

We were using another wordpress.com site before, but we’ve recently had some restructuring in the group and thus are creating this new wordpress.com site. As of this posting, we still have a lot of info to update/import to this site. Keep checking back or subscribe to check out everything we’ve done so far.

Right now, we’re two families who are aligned in the vision we’ve created together, and we’re actively looking for property to realize the vision. We’re in the finishing stages of the mortgage pre-approval process; we’ve interviewed 4 real-estate agents and have selected one.

We’re very excited about what we’re doing, and we’re looking for more members to get the ball rolling a bit faster – critical mass is just on the horizon.We’d love to hear from you if you think you or anyone you know might be interested. Have a great day!

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney