For people with a place in mind and a decision to make
Judge a community before you commit
For people who have found somewhere and now have to decide whether it works — governance, conflict, money and the patterns that end projects.
5 steps 51 min of reading free, no account
What you will be able to do
01
Read a community's governance from the outside in a single visit
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Tell a real warning sign from something that only sounds alarming
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Ask about conflict and power in a way that gets a straight answer
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Recognise the six patterns that end most projects, early enough to matter
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Understand what you would actually own, and what leaving would return
The path
5 steps, in order
- How communities decide How decisions are actually made, how each method fails, and how to read a community's governance from the outside in one visit.
- Conflict, power and repair The five conflicts that actually recur, the power nobody voted for, and what a repair process has to contain.
- Why communities end Where the two different "90% fail" figures come from, the six patterns that recur, and the endings that are not failures.
- Owning, leasing, renting The four legal shells, what you could sell, and the mortgage question answered directly.
- Membership: getting in, and getting out The stages, what a fair membership agreement contains, and why a good process protects you as much as them.
- Path complete Then: Take the visit questions with you.
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