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⚠️ WARNING: This is "Work-in-Progress" 🚧<br />Definitely Not "Done"!

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This project is public to keep us accountable to ourselves / each other and everyone in-the-loop. 💬<br /> Please don't read it if you are critical of embryonic ideas 💡 that are not a Polished PowerPoint Pitch Deck. 👩‍🏫<br /> If you read the README.md and are curious to know more, check the /issues 👀

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2024 Update

A lot has changed since we first wrote this document. ⏳<br /> The global pandemic 🦠 and lock-down 🚫 brought construction/renovation progress to a halt. 🛑 <br /> We were unable to continue with construction due to restrictions 🙅‍♀️<br /> and then when things re-opened our foreman moved on to a different project 😕<br /> leaving us with an unfinished exterior building (i.e. building site!) 🚧 <br /> We requested several quotes from local construction companies but none had availability to help us. 🤦‍♀️ <br /> We have made decent progress on the exterior with the help of day labourers, 👷<br /> but in construction, anything that is not finished is still a building site ... 🏗️

Family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Our first child was born in 2020 👶 and we focussed on being parents 👪<br /> while working full-time remote jobs to keep bills paid. 🧑‍💻 <br /> Our second child (2022) consumed all our remaining time. 🎉 <br /> Children are awesome, they demand/deserve attention & nurture. 🥰

We have explored using the Braga House for other purposes <br /> including transforming it into a mini homeschool. 🏫 <br /> But, sadly, the numbers don't stack up; it would make a huge financial loss during the first 3-5 years. 💸🔥📉

Note: We haven't given up on the idea of running our own childcare, read below for more detail! ⬇️

Goal? 🥅

Our goal has only changed slightly since we started; <br /> we now explicitly include the words "family-friendly". <br /> If anything this just makes it/us more focussed; 🎯<br /> we aren't trying to make something for "everyone". 🙅‍♀️

To recap the goal is:

Build a family-friendly shared-living house we love living in 🏡<br /> that attracts like-minded health-focussed motivated people 🏃‍♀️<br /> who want to make the most of their life. ⏳

Note: if you can re-formulate this to be more succinct, please do! 🙏

This goal aligns perfectly with the dwyl mission. ❤️ ✅

as we all know ...

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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” <br />~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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We still have a lot of work to do before we can open the house to guests this is the short/focussed list:

7 Point Plan 7️⃣

1. Finish the Sun Room + Garden: home#14 🌱 🪴 🌳 <br /> This is by far our highest priority task. <br /> Without a finished garden, we cannot open our doors for any activity. 🛑 We need a lot of help with the construction work! 🚧
2. Design + Build Bunk Beds: bunk-bed#20 🛌
3. Define Systems: home#113 🕙 <br /> This involves the creation of written instructions, checklists and in some cases videos. But it all starts with writing down what needs to be done.
4. Build Online Application Form: fields-demo#2. 📝 <br /> There are many reasons for creating our own application form the most obvious ones are: privacy/security, better UX, analytics and partial capture (improved conversion).
5. Invite first friendly guests to give us feedback. 🤗💬 We are already moving forward with this, they will help give us feedback on furniture/bunk bed prototypes.
6. Review, finalise and implement door locking system and overall house security dwyl/home#282
7. Iterate on Systems, Beds & Application + Feedback Forms. ♻️
8. Open to Paying Guests ASAP with the systems in place.^* ⏳

^*Opening the house to guests without Systems is chaos so can't/won't happen. 🙅‍♀️<br /> The good news is: Systems is the area where everyone can help! 🙏<br /> It's as simple as: observe something is "not right" or "can be better", 😕<br /> capture it systematically (describe the problem verbally and where relevant include a photo/video), 📝 📷 🎥<br /> bring it to the attention of the person who you think is responsible (e.g: Housemaster) 👩<br /> then it will be fixed systematically while documenting the fix. 📝 ✅

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Details 📝

This update to the plan aims to answer as many questions as possible. ❓<br /> We need complete clarity on our goals and the plan to get us there. 🗺️<br /> If you still have questions, please open issues to discuss. 💬

Why?

We have written several iterations of the [business] plan over the years, yet some aspects remained unclear to key stakeholders. When the message is unclear, it is the duty of the creator/transmitter of that message - not the receiver - to clarify it.

Family Friendly? 🤷‍♀️

A simple rule-of-thumb is: if it not allowed in a kindergarten classroom/school, it's not family-friendly.

Examples include: smoking, vaping, drinking alcohol or any other non prescription / illegal substances.

Profanity is discouraged as is shouting. <br /> Any kind of adult content is strictly forbidden. 🚫 4️⃣0️⃣3️⃣

Bottom line: be nice to everyone. <br /> If you see someone being unkind, either politely help them understand what they were doing/saying is unkind, and/or inform the housemaster of the behaviour.

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Accommodation

1: Family-friendly short-stay shared accommodation in the top 2 floors of the house. <br /> This includes the 4 large bedrooms and “middle” floor which has the kitchen, dining room and current play room; which will be an informal co-working room with both a sofa seating area and 10 ("hot") desks. There is space for 24 beds. (4 rooms x 3 bunks x beds per bunk)

Charging €15/night/bunk (market clearing in our city!) and having occupancy of 70% we get: 24 x €15 x 365 days x 70% / 12 months = €7665/month

Note: There will be peak months where occupancy reaches 95% (June - sept) and low season (Dec - Feb) where it’s only 20-30% so it balances out. We will also encourage longer-term stays with 30% discounts which equates to 70% occupancy.

If the “overheads” for the businesses are shared and thus each only has to cover half, then both businesses instantly become (more) profitable/sustainable. Then it’s a question of figuring out the plan to make both coexist and ensure that parents are comfortable having their kids going to play group “next door” to a - carefully curated - co-living/working space.

I think it’s very muc