Mistake #3: Running a Coliving is like living in a coliving
I can still see the scene.
I'm in the kitchen, leaning against the counter, talking to Flow. We’re talking about coliving. What else?
I'm telling him how much I love doing things for the community, caring for it, and how I dream of turning this into a job someday.
He encourages me.
That is probably around the time I stopped dreaming about running my own coliving and decided it would happen. I imagined how I would decorate, how I would welcome people, and how happy we would all be and bond forever.
How hard can it be? Take a bunch of cool people, give them sheets, a room, and the internet, and watch the magic happen.
Turns out… VERY.
[This piece is specifically about running a destination coliving for stays from two weeks to a few months.]
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