No units currently available

Thank you to everyone who applied for our last unit. At this time we have no open units. We will post to our website when another comes open. We average about one opening per year, at random times during the year.

Studio opening February 2011 (filled)

Update: We currently have no openings. We leave this post here so interested parties can see our selections process.

Thank you for your interest in learning more about becoming a member/share-holder of our housing cooperative. This post provides basic information about our property and our community. Please search our website for additional information about our community.

We have a vacancy coming up on or after Feb. 15 2011. The unit available to a new member is a studio with monthly assessments of approximately $500 and a membership share-value of approximately $9,250. You can see a floor plan and photos here.

All members contribute labor to govern, manage, and maintain this 22-unit, 1920s Spanish style building, located near UCB/Berkeley BART. Co-op reviews assessments annually with goal of having well-maintained housing at moderate cost. We are not a collective, group house or co-housing.

If you are interested in being considered for membership, please download and fill out our application form:(zipped Word file 19kb or Word file 102 kb or PDF file 145 kb). See below for notes on application formats. Completed applications can be filled out and emailed, or printed out and sent via regular mail or delivered through the mail slot to the right of our front door. We will not accept faxed applications. Please provide complete information.

We will review all applications that are returned to us by Sunday, January 9, 2011 — applications received after that date may not be considered. We anticipate that we will be contacting applicants in the following few days that we’re interested in interviewing. If you anticipate not being readily reachable and/or available for interviews, please let us know as soon as possible so we can try to make other arrangements.

We will show the unit to those applicants we select for an interview, and we will be posting a floorplan and photos of the unit on the weekend of December 25/26. If you need additional information, please send us an e-mail or leave us a phone message (e-mail is the easiest and preferred communication method for us and will get you a faster response). Thanks!

Application formats:

• Zipped file: This file is in ZIP format so it is compressed to a smaller size. You’ll need to open the zip file to find the Word file inside. Most computers should have a zip-opening program already installed.
• Word file: This file can be read by Microsoft Word, Open Office Writer, or other common word processors. The document is designed so you can type directly into it, then either print the file and send it in, or save it and email it in.
• PDF file: This file can be read with any PDF reader. You can type directly into the document. If you have Adobe Reader, you can save the file and then email it in to us. You’ll see a “Submit Form” button in the upper right corner above the document, which will walk you through the steps to email it (you’ll be saving a copy of the document, then attaching it to an email to send to us).

With either the Word or PDF file, you can also print out the file and complete it by hand (however, if you do this you won’t be able to email it in, and please remember to write legibly).

Welcome

The Walnut House Cooperative is a limited equity 22-unit apartment building in Berkeley, CA. Explore our web site to learn more about us.

Cooperative’s documents posted to our web site

In order to help potential members know more about us, and to help share our procedures with other cooperatives, we are beginning to post some of our documents to our web site.

These will probably not be a complete list of all our documents, but should help people understand more about us. Click the “Bylaws etc.” tab to see what we have posted.

October 2009 Opening Filled

We filled our most recent opening, and have no others at this time.

When we do have openings, they are generally for studio apartments (members have the right to move into apartments when others leave, and when one-bedroom units open they are usually taken by current members).

Opening for studio apartment fall 2009

We have a current opening. See our Openings page for complete details and to download an application.

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