Without these profits, cohousing developers and project managers cannot stay in business. Wonderland Hill has recently given the community a share of the profits as well. This is a new and very welcome innovation. Other groups have made different investment return choices. Here are the reasons that we avoided some of them.
Some groups compensate member and non-members differently.
We felt that Silicon Valley investor s are too savvy to accept a lesser return just because they re members. And it makes the bookkeeping more complicated, especially when a member converts to a non-member. Some groups use percent discounts instead of dollar credits, but that doesn t seem fair. However, the bookkeeping is just too complicated. Some groups differentiate between what kinds of money are eligible for which returns.