Village to Village Network (https://www.vtvnetwork.org/) and Men’s Sheds Association (https://usmenssheds.org/) are successful models of people building community to improve the aging experience.So drawing on Dr Thomas and Nancy’s work and incorporating cohousing and pocket neighborhood elements into my communities, I have chosen to use shipping container homes in areas along the Texas coast where storms frequently cause wind and water damage.

In that scenario (right now unlikely for the next few years) you may get under water if you didn’t account for it.I never found a bank that would do fix rate for more than 5 years.

Started out asking $300 rent and $600 deposit ($900.00) for a one bedroom with water, sewer and trash provided.

So at the end of the 5 years, you are just treading water with the lower price point home, while you made headway with the other one. 

The agreement stipulates:"The owners agree, that no water shall be used for commercial purpose, but only for their private domestic use including vegetable gardens and livestock maintenance."

If I buy a house for $400k, and the market drops and the house is now worth $300k, I am under water.

There were plenty of challenges from removing a homeless person off the property to a water pipe in the basement letting go.

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We had 21 units that took water that day, and it was a rough month.

All the water from the crown of the road floods onto my property and I was informed its illegal to discharge water onto anothers property and that the engineers could apply pressure to the city to have curb and gutter installed.