Home is sanctuary. It’s where we let our hair down, hang out in comfy clothes, and get to be ourselves.
Your home-mate(s) should be part of your comfort. They should be as comfortable as the comfy clothes you choose. What does it take to choose well? Many things. Here are tools we have created to help you in your selection process. Check out what we have put together.
Online Learning
5 Key Benefits of Shared Housing
In seven short videos, learn how shared housing helps people live better.
In ten short videos, learn the process for conducting a housemate search.
Book
Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates, offers a roadmap for the process of housemate selection. If you use the process you will find and attract a compatible housemate and create comfortable shared housing for you and others. Learn more here.
Workbook
The workbook is a companion to the book, containing worksheets and tracking sheets for your home-mate contacts and inquiries. It provides a single place where you keep all your reflections, information and progress. More here.
Interviewing
What You Need to Talk About When Interviewing a Potential Home-Mate includes a short questionnaire of interviewing questions. These questions help you focus on the important areas of compatibility and conduct this essential conversation so that it is more comfortable and fun. Click here to learn more.
Exploring the idea?
Story
When Genna Met Sally is a fictional account of how two women interviewed to live together. Create your own account to access the PDF. (and other freebies.)
Blog Posts/Articles
In the blog section are ten plus years of writing on the subject of shared housing, including interviews of real people doing it, trends in housing and other commentaries. Start reading.
Newsletter
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