Plain answers.

Every sale comes with a written promise that your home is finished and ready to live in within two years of signing. If we miss it, you keep the right to make us finish, not just a refund.

You own your home and your work. AUM keeps the land, runs the shared spaces, and helps you reach buyers if you want that help. Your homesite is leased to you for 40 years, a lease your family can inherit.

Your monthly has up to four parts. Ground rent pays for the land. A community fee, at cost, pays for security and upkeep. Member services and growers' co-op dues are optional.

You decide what to produce and what to charge. The co-op can help you sell to our partner farms and grocers, and using that help is your choice.

Reserving your place costs nothing until we open reservations. When we do, your deposit is held by an independent bank or title company and refunded in full whenever you ask, until you sign a purchase contract.

The prices shown are starting prices. Each one includes the homesite set-up: septic, water and power runs, and solar. They are estimates while we lock in builder and material costs. Your contract shows your final price before you commit to anything.

Our first sites are in the Natchitoches Parish area and in Converse, in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. We will share exact locations only with invited households.

The site plans here are drawings of how a site could look. They are not surveys, and they are not an offer of a particular lot.

Every homesite is 150 by 150 feet, just over half an acre, with its own septic system. On a Maker Kitchen lot, the kitchen also gets its own treatment unit, because a food business cannot share the home's system. The health department approves each system before it is built. Each lot sheet also shows a shared-sewer version.

AUMi is an AI guide. It can explain how AUM works and help you choose a package, but it cannot give legal, tax or money advice, and a person reviews anything you agree to.

AUM is an Equal Housing Opportunity. Anyone may apply, and every application is judged on the same criteria.

The programs that open as more families arrive are our plan, not a promise. We share progress with every household as each stage gets close.

The families who live here help make the community's rules. A residents' council starts with the first households, and families take on more of the running of the community as it grows.

We compare today's prices with typical homes in these parishes, using public figures. AUM homes are smaller, and your monthly includes ground rent for the land. We never promise what a home or the land will be worth later.

Every household holds one share in the AUM Community Co-op, with one vote. You buy the share to take part, not to sell for a profit. If you leave, it is refunded at the price you paid.

AUM pays a set share of what it earns from the land into the co-op's Community Fund. Each year members vote. Surplus pays for the next community addition unless members choose to return part of it, based on how much each household used the co-op.