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Annamarie believes that through sharing housing, individuals of any age can have a better quality of life than by living alone.

Sharing Housing got started because of a conversation. My dear friend was complaining about the state of her finances. When I suggested that she could rent a room in her house, she objected that “she didn’t know how to do that.” Truth is, she’d had a horrible experience and was definitely bruised and unwilling to set herself up for another awful time.

But I knew that she’d allowed that experience to happen by not being selective and not knowing what she needed to look for in a housemate. I immediately offered to coach her and help her find her good housemate.  She’s now been living with housemates for eight years or so, quite happily.

The next day I wrote an outline for the book that became “Sharing Housing, A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates” Over many years of living in shared housing I had developed a process that I could teach so that others could have the benefits that sharing housing provides.

In my twenty plus year of shared housing, I’ve learned a few things. I’ve lived with singles, people in transition, a single mother and her pre-school son, an elderly friend of the family, couples, people in school or internships, and foreigners in the country for work or study. Some have remained friends, others have not. There is no doubt that my life has been richer by living under a roof with people who started out as strangers.

You can do it. It takes a process. Learn from this blog, sign up for the newsletter, take a workshop, read the book.