Whose job is it when the housemate wants to sublet for a chunk of time, say a summer or a semester to find someone to sublet? If you don't think about it, the quick answer is that the housemate …
Co-Living and Owning Together
We would call it “co-living.” They called it “co-housing.” The confusion in terminology highlights how English really doesn’t have a word to describe it when people who are not a nuclear family …
Do It While It’s Easy
“Do it While it's Easy” is one of our four guidelines for living well with others as described in the book, Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates. An essential part of …
Turning Down the Heat on Housemate Conflicts
Your housemate works in an air conditioned office and drives in an air-conditioned car. When he comes home he finds the house unbearably hot. You work outside in the hot sun and love to have the …
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Feedback — Essential to Successful Home-Mating
Here is excellent article about feedback that showed up in my inbox. This one offers a slightly different twist on this most important aspect of good relationships. I'm republishing it because …
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4 Simple Secrets to Roommate Bliss
Laura Drucker over on The Daily Muse wrote a post called, "Four Simple Secrets to Roommate Bliss." (It's no longer on line.) Her four simple secrets are a bit different from the four principles for …
