Ahead of the curve

http://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2013/03/great-senior-sell-our-next-housing-crisis

And, even though many surveys show that seniors say they want to age in place, Nelson predicts that as they travel through the old age portion of the python, they will want to sell their three- and four-bedroom homesteads and move to a condo.

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How might this play out in the Twin Cities?
Tom Melchior, director of market research for CliftonLarsonAllen, a business accounting and consulting firm, who has a specialty in senior housing, believes that prices will depend to a great extent on location.
"Most of the action now is in Minneapolis and St. Paul's downtowns and Uptown,” he says. “Also in the inner ring suburbs."

Nelson predicts that all of this will hit the fan around 2020. At that point, he says, seniors will be trying to offload 200,000 more houses than there will be families coming into the market to buy them. A lot of people won't be aging in place but stuck in place. And, presumably, prices would drop, enabling younger folks with less change in their pockets to get into a house. [emphasis added]

All we have to do is sit and wait  :)

Working together

Short videos on youTube are one way we have to help prospective members find us.

Here's one:

Townhouse? Not so much

According to http://www.bringmethenews.com/2012/12/23/interest-in-townhouses-tumbles-in-todays-real-estate-market/, townhouse sales are not going well in the metro area

Townhouses in the suburbs and small towns ringing the Twin Cities have long  held special appeal for first-time buyers and empty nesters. But today’s younger buyers appear more interested in single-family homes and the older ones are renting or remaining in their existing property.

What can we learn from this to help spread the word about the co-op alternative?

Highlighting an available home - 108

Setting the standard for open and spacious, 108 is a freshly redecorated example of our F floor plan.

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Chili Days

The Open House gave prospective members and volunteer tour guides a chance to score a bowl of member ND's world class chili. The recipe's a secret, but ND shared this advice: "not too much chili powder when you are serving the public."

Yum!