The Supernuclear Directory
By Phil Levin and me
***We’ve moved to Substack! Find future posts at supernuclear.substack.com.***
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
The Hard Stuff
The Soft Stuff
- Meet Cheryl — Your coliving nemesis
- Fairness is overrated and bragging is underrated: Motivational systems for coliving
Community story-time:
- 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)
= Coming soon: Articles we plan to write =
The Hard stuff
- Community finances
- What makes a good property and how to find one
- Structuring a lease for coliving
- Financing a property (options and considerations)
- Legal structuring options (e.g. TIC, Condo, LLC, Land Trust, Limited Equity Partnership, Benevolent landlord)
- An Essay on Pragmatism: Sorry, you can not have your tiny home village in San Francisco. Here’s why.
- Building consensus among buyers
- Resources: sample lease, sample pro forma, sample LLC docs, search tools for property
The Soft Stuff
- Founding residents: who you need to make this happen
- Setting Values (e.g. emergent vs upfront)
- The Abundance Mentality
- How to be a great guest in a community
- Lovers, family, friends: how to deal with non-resident members and guests
- MVP Coliving tryouts: getting a house for 1+ months with a chosen community (great for COVID-19 times!)
- Governance and Decision-making
- OMG Kids
- Food share systems
- 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
- Case study of your community (we’ll give you a template and send you a gift!)
- 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
Ready to dive in? Head to our home page to read the latest posts, or start from the beginning with Phil and Gillian’s introductions.
Curious about coliving? Find more case studies, how tos, and reflections at Supernuclear: a guide to coliving. Sign up to be notified as future articles are published here:
And you can find the directory of the articles we’ve written here.
Hit us up?
heyo@gosupernuclear.com
