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If you’re renting a room in your own home, you want to live with someone you’re comfortable with. That might mean another woman, someone who keeps kosher, or someone who doesn’t smoke. So can you say …
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Creating a housemate ad is an important piece of the housemate selection process, and it can hard to do it right. What you ought to know .... You are looking for one person. You aren't …
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Writing a good housemate ad is an important part of the housemate selection process. Most ads are forgettable — a list of room dimensions and a price. The best ads attract exactly the right person …
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“I didn’t like the silence,” said Janet explaining how she ended up choosing a life of shared housing. At the time, she was living alone after the divorce in the house of her twenty-five year …
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Glenn owns a big old house—a really large house of sixteen rooms with five bedrooms, built in 1804, about fifteen minutes from a small city in New England. He loves it. He bought it with his wife, and …
“Less is more” says John, 56, former wildlife biologist, landlord and husband. He had the whole kit and caboodle; the house, the job, a child, and multiple titles and responsibilities. Now he’s …
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