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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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“It’s a sweet surprise to me,” says Janet about living with Kathleen as home-mates. It made sense to her to share housing for practical reason, but she was surprised by the other benefits of sharing …
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Airbnb allows a friend to earn her property taxes. Right now, as I post this, I'm at an Airbnb quite close to a family wedding which I’m sharing with my siblings at a fraction of what it would cost us …
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Judy and Donna own a condo they have lived in for almost 20 years. Says Judy, “By buying together and moving in at the same time, it is all fair. No one has a foot over the other. We have mutual …
When Shelley’s father was no longer capable of living on his own, Shelley went looking for a way for him to live. She knew that an institutional setting would not work for him. She says, “Dad had to …
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Everyone lives in a different way, and some people prefer to live alone, but there are major benefits to living with a home-mate! If you’re on the fence, or unsure if shared housing is the right move …
