After a brief hiatus, we're back! 

In Season 2 Episode 1 of the Coliving Circle Podcast we interview Matthew Ryan, the President of Re-viv, a Private Equity Investment Company that acquires and develops housing in up-and-coming neighborhoods. 

One of their focuses has been on co-living so we’re excited to have Matt on and talk about the sector from an investment and logistical standpoint. 

In this episode, we discuss…  

- Personal path to discovering coliving 

- 'The Lost Case for Mid-Mark Coliving Done at Scale' overview  

1) Let’s talk Opportunity Zones  

2) What is the model behind that  

3) What was your thesis behind it?  

4) Why didn’t it work?  

5) As it related specifically to the Bay Area, one of the most expensive places to live in the world, how does that impact housing costs in general in that area? 

- Four Reasons Why Covid Will Be The Hottest Sector in Real Estate  

https://re-viv.com/insights/four-reasons-why-co-living-will-be-the-hottest-sector-in-real-estate-post-covid/  

1) First in, First Out  

2) Co-Living 2.0 is here  

3) Co-Living has the common denominator  

4) Co-Living already exists 

- What’s Next for Re-Viv  To contact Matt and his team, visit https://re-viv.com/ 

… Coliving Circle is the #1 site to find coliving.   

Find the right co-living space for you in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami and more on https://colivingcircle.com/ 

Other Coliving Topics  

What is Coliving?  

http://blog.colivingcircle.com/2020/03/06/what-is-coliving Los Angeles Guide to Coliving 2020  

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/a-2020-guide-to-co-living-in-los-angeles-a2188435c947 San Francisco Guide to Coliving 2020  https://medium.com/colivingcircle/2020-guide-to-co-living-in-san-francisco-e7ee94557936 Does Coliving Solve our Loneliness Problem?  https://medium.com/@pburke24/does-coliving-solve-our-loneliness-problem-31f807b3aa8e Cohousing vs. Coliving—What’s the Difference?  https://medium.com/@pburke24/cohousing-vs-coliving-whats-the-difference-9ecb4e7e9f95 Search Coliving  https://search.colivingcircle.com/

In Episode 12 of the Coliving Circle Podcast we interview Derek Baker, an internet entrepreneur, investor and founder of Freedom Coliving.

Freedom Coliving is a project to document living in large urban cities affordably around the US and abroad.

In 2021, Derek plans to live in the three largest US cities New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago for 8 months on a $1,200 budget.

In this episode, we discuss…

- Prior coliving experiences

- Why LA is his first coliving stop

- LA coliving landscape - neighborhoods, pricing, spaces tailored to certain interests, demographics etc,.

- The parameters of what he is looking for (budget, location, private/shared) etc,.

- Your expectations of coliving in LA

Check out his project here

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Coliving Circle is the #1 site to find coliving.

Find the right co-living space for you in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami and more on https://colivingcircle.com/

Other Coliving Topics

What is Coliving?

http://blog.colivingcircle.com/2020/03/06/what-is-coliving

Los Angeles Guide to Coliving 2020

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/a-2020-guide-to-co-living-in-los-angeles-a2188435c947

San Francisco Guide to Coliving 2020

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/2020-guide-to-co-living-in-san-francisco-e7ee94557936

Does Coliving Solve our Loneliness Problem?

https://medium.com/@pburke24/does-coliving-solve-our-loneliness-problem-31f807b3aa8e

Cohousing vs. Coliving—What’s the Difference?

https://medium.com/@pburke24/cohousing-vs-coliving-whats-the-difference-9ecb4e7e9f95

Search Coliving

https://search.colivingcircle.com/

In Episode 11 of the Coliving Circle Podcast we interview Kevin Carter, the Co-Founder of Emergence Baltimore, a live-in accelerator. 

In this episode, we discuss…

- Kevin’s journey before Emergence (Venture for America & starting the JHU accelerator)

- Launching an accelerator 6 weeks from the conception of the idea

- What the accelerator looks like from an entrepreneur perspective

- What sort of entrepreneurs they're targeting

- Creating a community during COVID

- Balancing co-living and co-working

- Decision to be a non-profit

- How does Emergence scale?/What is the future?

Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-carter-594571a5/

Check out Emergence Baltimore on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/emergencebaltimore/

Learn more about Emergence Baltimore

https://www.emergencebaltimore.org/

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Coliving Circle is the #1 site to find coliving.

Find the right co-living space for you in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami and more on https://colivingcircle.com/

Other Coliving Topics

What is Coliving?

http://blog.colivingcircle.com/2020/03/06/what-is-coliving

Los Angeles Guide to Coliving 2020

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/a-2020-guide-to-co-living-in-los-angeles-a2188435c947

San Francisco Guide to Coliving 2020

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/2020-guide-to-co-living-in-san-francisco-e7ee94557936

Does Coliving Solve our Loneliness Problem?

https://medium.com/@pburke24/does-coliving-solve-our-loneliness-problem-31f807b3aa8e

Cohousing vs. Coliving—What’s the Difference?

https://medium.com/@pburke24/cohousing-vs-coliving-whats-the-difference-9ecb4e7e9f95

Search Coliving

https://search.colivingcircle.com/

This was an awesome interview with Leah Ziliak, a Coliving Consultant. 

In this episode, we discuss… 

- Her journey to Coliving from the music business and hospitality industry 

- How working on a cruise ship and with touring artists prepared her to consulting in the industry 

- Onboarding and offboarding of residents 

- The different types of coliving spaces 

- How the digital nomad coliving experiences differ from others 

- What the larger coliving spaces could learn from the smaller ones 

- What it's like being a digital nomad during a pandemic. What do you do when you don't have a home? 

- What it means for digital nomad focused coliving spaces going forward 

- Learnings from the virtual ColivingHub conference last weekend. 

Want to connect with Leag? https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahziliak/ 

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Coliving Circle is the #1 site to find coliving. 

Find the right co-living space for you in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami and more on 

https://colivingcircle.com/ 

Other Coliving Topics 

What is Coliving? 

http://blog.colivingcircle.com/2020/03/06/what-is-coliving 

Los Angeles Guide to Coliving 2020 

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/a-2020-guide-to-co-living-in-los-angeles-a2188435c947 

San Francisco Guide to Coliving 2020 

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/2020-guide-to-co-living-in-san-francisco-e7ee94557936 

Does Coliving Solve our Loneliness Problem? 

https://medium.com/@pburke24/does-coliving-solve-our-loneliness-problem-31f807b3aa8e 

Cohousing vs. Coliving—What’s the Difference? 

https://medium.com/@pburke24/cohousing-vs-coliving-whats-the-difference-9ecb4e7e9f95 Search Coliving https://search.colivingcircle.com/

After a brief hiatus, we’re back! This is one of our best episodes, an interview with Connor Moore, the founder of Coliving Corner, https://colivingcorner.com/.

Coliving Corner is a site dedicated to analysis, education and insights into the coliving space. Connor’s writings go deep into the social elements of coliving. He’s a fantastic writer and shares a ton of knowledge in this episode. In this episode, we discuss

- Connor’s journey to discovering coliving

- Future of coliving following the pandemic

- Trade-offs of Community v. Scaleability / What’s the right number that hits on both?

- How the current environment politically may be affecting coliving

- How architectural design can promote wellbeing in coliving

Want more Connor? Connect with him on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorjmoore/

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Coliving Circle is the #1 site to find coliving.

Find the right co-living space for you in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami and more on https://colivingcircle.com/

Other Coliving Topics

What is Coliving?

http://blog.colivingcircle.com/2020/03/06/what-is-coliving

Los Angeles Guide to Coliving 2020

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/a-2020-guide-to-co-living-in-los-angeles-a2188435c947

San Francisco Guide to Coliving 2020

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/2020-guide-to-co-living-in-san-francisco-e7ee94557936

Does Coliving Solve our Loneliness Problem?

https://medium.com/@pburke24/does-coliving-solve-our-loneliness-problem-31f807b3aa8e

Cohousing vs. Coliving—What’s the Difference?

https://medium.com/@pburke24/cohousing-vs-coliving-whats-the-difference-9ecb4e7e9f95

Search Coliving

https://search.colivingcircle.com/

In this episode, we discuss  

- What is Homebase? 

- The inspiration behind it 

- How your background in sports and wellness brought you to creating Homebase 

- The Bunk, Base and Room 

- Homebase app 

- Impact of coronavirus on coliving as a whole  

Connect with Stephen  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-bond/  

Homebase  https://www.livehomebase.com/  

Find Coliving in Brooklyn  

brooklyn.colivingcircle.com

In this episode, I review some notes, quotes and analysis from previous episodes on the impact of the coronavirus on coliving.   

We look at how coronavirus is impacting  

- Residents 

- Social distancing and coliving 

- Coliving spaces 

- Starcity

 - Outpost Club 

- The Coliving industry as a whole 

- Demand for coliving  

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Find coliving at ColivingCircle.com

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And, how will the coliving industry rebound? We’re optimistic.   

Check out our Medium article that goes in-depth on how coliving spaces are responding.   

https://medium.com/colivingcircle/how-the-coronavirus-covid-19-is-impacting-coliving-1cabbc267e3e  

Our interview with Jade Brandias, quarantining away from the coliving space  

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Tyt4QgZehfLuidHtIOfvx  

How coronavirus also pushed Kalen Hayman, formerly a member at Haven to quarantine  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ixUHsAEiM&t  

NEW ARTICLE by Fox Business 5/3  Coronavirus pandemic leads to increased demand for co-living spaces  

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/co-living-students-university-coronavirus-pandemic

In this interview, I have the pleasure of interviewing Karin Hoskin, an Executive Director of CoHo.Us, a non-profit dedicated to the health and expansion of cohousing.  I wanted to interview Karin and understand the relationships between cohousing and coliving among other things.

This is one of my favorite interviews as we discuss the following topics.   

- What is cohousing? 

- What attracted her to cohousing 

- How coliving and cohousing are both under the intentional housing umbrella 

- Cohousing v. Coliving. What's the difference? 

- If there is any rivalry between cohousing and coliving 

- Culture of cohousing

- How cohousing is reacting to the coronavirus 

- How cohousing is far more equipped for social distancing than coliving 

- Negative stereotypes about cohousing 1) commune 2) "older white people" - Senior cohousing  

///  Looking for coliving in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Washington D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia and more?  Check out ColivingCircle.com  

Want to know how coronavirus is affecting coliving? 

Check out our blog  https://medium.com/colivingcircle/how-the-coronavirus-covid-19-is-impacting-coliving-1cabbc267e3e  ///  

Some links!   

Cohousing Association of the US (CohoUS)  

http://www.cohousing.org/  

Foundation of Intentional Communities (FIC)  

https://www.ic.org/  

Types of Intentional Communities  

https://www.ic.org/directory/community-types/  

Directory of Cohousing Communities in the United States  

http://www.cohousing.org/directory/  

Wild Sage Cohousing  

https://wildsagecohousing.org/?_ga=2.228004893.1832010344.1522771707-2070928925.1503441878  

What is Cohousing?  

https://www.cohousing.org/what-cohousing/cohousing/  

Why people choose Cohousing  https://www.cohousing.org/why-cohousing/  

Grace Kim's TED Talk on How Cohousing Can Make Us Happier and Live Longer  

https://www.ted.com/talks/grace_kim_how_cohousing_can_make_us_happier_and_live_longer?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare  

Webinar Series on Coronavirus and Cohousing  https://www.cohousing.org/past-web-chats/

Todd Baldwin is an entrepreneur, millionaire, college dropout and landlord. 

He was recently profiled by CNBC – Make It publication video titled 'Living On $615K A Year In Seattle | Millennial Millionaire', which has over 1.1 million views on YouTube. He bought his first rental property at 23-years old.   Although Todd owns properties that are not catered to coliving, he operates his units like coliving spaces, and has for years, equipping his rentals with furnishings, one inclusive bill, community gatherings and the like.   

In this episode, we discuss  

- Feedback from his CNBC profile 

- Dealing with the negativity 

- What a rental property of his looks like / amenities, utilities, events  

- How has that evolved since your first rental? 

- Why his wife and him still live with roommates – ‘House Hacking’ 

- How he’s managed to keep 100% occupancy rate in all of his properties for the last 4 years 

- Systems he has for ensuring roommates get along 

- What he stocks in his houses 

- Marketing his coliving rental properties 

- How he matches roommate in his houses 

- How he develops community among his renters 

- The challenge in scaling community 

- Why he views his tenants as clients more than tenants - Rapid fire round!  

///  Find coliving in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami, Washington D.C., Brooklyn, Manhattan  ColivingCircle.com  ///  

CNBC Profile on Todd  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb3Z5... 

Todd’s YouTube Channel  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOuN...

This episode features an interview with Jade Brandais--an entrepreneur and the founder of the Renge App—a member at Treehouse Coliving, a magical coliving space in Hollywood, California.

A few topics we touch on…

- What does ‘community’ look like?

- Community at Treehouse

- Collaboration at a creative space like Treehouse

- If coliving solves loneliness

- How Treehouse and coliving spaces are reacting to the coronavirus outburst

- Pros and cons of being quarantined in a coliving space

Connect with Jade on LinkedIn

Find Coliving on ColivingCircle

Read more about my experience touring Treehouse (about halfway through the page)