Rental: The Garden Studio Apartment at Libby's
Located on the sunny ground floor of a three story duplex within Cobb Hill Cohousing.
$1,500 a month, 400 square feet. Plowing and utilities included.
Tons of light, new kitchen (including all new appliances-stove/oven+fridge), flooring, tub/shower (tiled). Some furnishings (bed+) available. Shared entry with mudroom and full bath on main level. Your own back door to trails, gardens, views.
Healthy habits and sustainability/mindfulness a must. Perfect for an active able-bodied professional who travels, or a long lost communitarian looking for their niche. Quiet hours after 10 pm. Must appreciate cats - I have 2 who keep to my floors. No (more) pets, please, and no perfumes/sprays. Looking for someone who wishes to be involved in the various aspects of community life (chores, meals, etc.).
Please contact owner Libby Kirkpatrick at 512-916-1513 (text best) with questions.
No Homes For Sale At This Time
Generally, of our 22 units, our turnover is one unit every year or two. The last house sold ($550k) spring 2023 and we welcomed the new household this past summer.
Buying a home at Cobb Hill starts with getting to know the community and what community life is like. Please thoroughly read through our website, generate your burning questions, perhaps talk with us over Zoom if you are far away, and come for a tour. Our monthly workdays are great times to visit. This starts our “exploration process” whereby we all explore whether we’d all thrive here together!
Living at Cobb Hill
Buying a home involves joining Cobb Hill Co-Housing and being active in community life. Members own their homes plus a share in the commonly owned land, forest, barns, Hunt House, wood shop, wood heating system, EV charging stations, photovoltaics, and the common house. The common house includes a large kitchen, dining room, den with stone fireplace, playroom, root cellar, library, large meeting room, guest rooms, laundry, and a cheese aging room. The Hunt House is the original farmhouse that has been converted into office spaces. Currently those spaces are rented to the Sustainable Food Lab. We care for the shared land and buildings together, in addition to our own homes. Neighbors participate in committees, community meetings, shared work, and a range of social gatherings. This all adds up to a lot of work and time, so we’re careful to say that folks need to have space in their lives for this community piece. If your life is already very full with your household needs, family, work, hobbies, etc., this might not be a good fit.
Features common to all homes include solar hot water, south-facing passive-solar orientation, composting toilets, efficient insulation, green-building design, a central-heating system, and high-speed gigabit fiber internet.
Home prices are set via a home appraisal for the first 90 days. The prices are not negotiable (higher or lower) during this time. The intent is to find the right fit rather than the highest bidder. All sales and rentals include a community “exploration process” and a transaction with the current owner. We are not growing and building new homes.
For information about learning more, setting up a visit or tour, please see our VISIT page.
Cobb Hill is a Co-Housing community in Hartland Four Corners. Twenty-three households (around 40 adults and 15 kids) live in single family homes, duplexes, and the Common House apartments. Cobb Hill is home to Cedar Mountain Farm and CSA, Cobb Hill Cheese, a shiitake mushroom CSA, a maple syrup enterprise, a group of beekeepers, a soap business, an active 4H club, and more. The three pillars of Cobb Hill are community, sustainability, and land/farm. Homes are sustainably built with solar hot water, south facing orientation, triple pane windows, composting toilets, electric car charging stations, and a super efficient central wood heating system.