Would you like to own land by June 2011 and be ready to cob a house in August-September? My husband, our roommate, and I want to join people ready to start a collectively owned community in British Columbia. Our goal is to buy a large parcel of land where we can build cob houses and down the road, cultivate and grow some of our food. Note that buying affordable land close to Vancouver is the goal of this community. Also: This is not a cohousing community; you will be apportioned square footage to build your house out of a large tract of land purchased in common.

A lot of communities have restrictions. We emphasize privacy and freedom. No dietary restrictions or spiritual affiliation is necessary. Responsible use of alcohol and tobacco on your premises is OK.

In fact, this will be a community gathered only for the purposes of buying land, cobbing and thus making life more affordable. Join ONLY if you recognize people’s right do as they please in their own house/ land as long as it doesn’t affect you. Houses should be as far from each other as possible in accordance to the legal water use limits and building restrictions. We especially want to encourage artists and people with building skills to contact us. Shared meals are an individual matter, but this community will not operate on the basis of a shared meal or shared worship model. If this is what you would like, this is not the community for you. We would like this to be affordable: $17,000 per person, $50,000 per family, or less if we get a good piece of land and enough members, and we can get permission to cob that many dwellings and drill the needed wells. You must have your own income. Contact us only if you have at least $15,000 to start and your own income.

Land ownership

There are two standard ways.

1. We pay for land outright and subdivide it later. This is ideal, because it would enable you to have a title to your own plot, so you can sell it, develop it, etc, in your own time. The drawback is that subdividing costs money beyond the initial price of the land.

2. Tenants in Common: we buy the land together, and own it together. The drawback is that you don’t have a title to your parcel, and that, in order to sell or transfer your land each party involved must sign off on any sale of your land.

We want to buy the land outright, but we are open to discuss tenants in common.

Are you ready to own land and stop worrying about the future? Act now.

Please contact me ASAP.

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