The Supernuclear Directory

aka the Table of Contents

Our guide to coliving is divided into “The Hard Stuff” and “The Soft Stuff.” The Hard Stuff will appeal to the left side of your brain: Legal and financial structures, finding property etc. The Soft Stuff will tickle the right side of your brain: Managing conflict, decision-making, etc.

We solemnly vow to leave no side of your brain untickled.

We’re also including a series of case studies to help you understand how individual communities run.

= On the newsstand: Articles we’ve written =

Opening remarks from the editors

• From Phil

• From Gillian

Directory of coliving communities:

• Here.

The Hard Stuff

• Rent vs. Buy vs. Build

• Managing finances in a coliving house

• Co-buying property with friends (long, detailed post!)

• 5 ways to get a loan when co-buying

• A low-risk way to see if coliving is right for you

• Leases, Subleases, and Master Tenancy, oh my!

• Building cohousing in California just got easier

• How to co-buy a vacation home with friends - part 1 and part 2

• Making money move(s)

• The Radish FriendLLC model explained

• How much to charge your friends rent

The Soft Stuff

• Meet Cheryl — Your coliving nemesis

• Fairness is overrated and bragging is underrated: Motivational systems for coliving

• The 9 kinds of people you’ll find in coliving

• Group-decision making

• Why you should tip your landlord

• Why not now?? (getting started)

• Opt-in exclusivity

• 11 strategies for keeping your coliving community clean

• The Obvious Truth: Planting a flag

• Really, we’re not a cult: a survey of rituals that bond coliving communities

• The narcissism of small differences

• Common misconceptions about coliving

• Connecting a multi-unit home to facilitate coliving

• Making decisions efficiently: Fist to Five

• Dunbar’s number and community size

Case studies written by community founders:

• The story of RGB (11-person rented house in San Francisco)

• The story of Radish (12-person co-owned compound in Oakland)

• The story of Gramercy House (5-person rented house in NYC)

• The story of Rabbithole (7-person rented house in San Francisco)

• The story of Bauhaus (5-person rented apartment in Oakland)

• The story of Ski Cult (17 person ephemeral community in Taos, NM)

• The story of Clarens Commons (7-person co-owned house in Toronto, CA)

• The story of Postel (56 person sharehouse in Tel Aviv, Israel)

• The story of Whale House (6 bedroom house in Maui, Hawaii)

Requests?

What would you like to read about? email heyo@gosupernuclear.com

= Help wanted: Articles we want contributed by readers =

Slide right into our electronic mail DMs — heyo@gosupernuclear.com

Thanks to our generous readers who have opted for a paid subscription, we are happy to compensate people who contribute articles to Supernuclear. We’ll pay $100 for the first submission per author, and another $200 if we decide to publish it (we can’t promise we will publish everything). A few things we’re looking for:

• Case study of your community (we’ll give you a template!)

• Design porn: Pinterest board of your space

• Interesting experiments you’ve run in your coliving communities

• Downfalls: Did you coliving community face-plant epically? Tell us about it so others don’t make the same mistakes.

• Anything else you feel passionate about sharing

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