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How to Deal When Your Housemate is Late Paying Bills

June 22, 2018 by Annamarie 26 Comments

Housemate Late Paying Bills

How should you deal when your housemate is late paying bills? Should you scream, throw a temper tantrum, or walk around silently resenting the person who hasn’t paid their bill? Nope, none of those are going to help the situation. Ask for the Money What you do need to do is to ask for the […]

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Filed Under: Keeping Good Housemates Tagged With: bills, conflict, expenses

Accordion House

June 27, 2015 by Annamarie Leave a Comment

Accordion House owner Arnie Arnesen

My “accordion house” is how Arnie Arnesen describes the large Queen Anne Victorian home she owns in Concord New Hampshire, the state’s capitol. She calls her house an “accordian house” because it can expand and contract according to what is needed at that moment. How The House Became Hers Her aunt originally bought the house […]

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Filed Under: Commentary, Real People Sharing Housing Tagged With: aging, expenses, home, home-mate, housemate, retirement, stories

Benefits for Sharing Housing

June 12, 2015 by Annamarie Leave a Comment

Golden Rule is a balancing act like thsese scales

There are four main benefits for sharing housing. These are broad categories. Read them and consider how each would be a benefit in your life. 1. Save money Housing costs are high.  Everywhere.  You can save literally thousands of dollars by sharing the cost of housing and utilities. 2. Companionship When you live alone its […]

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Filed Under: Commentary, Should I Share Housing? Tagged With: costs, doubling up, expenses, home-mate, house rules, housing, money, retirement loneliness

I’ll Never Live Alone Again

April 22, 2013 by Annamarie Leave a Comment

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Divorced, the mother of two adult children, Cynthia left the rural community where she had lived for many years for life in the Boston area. . At first she lived in a studio apartment by herself. It was a tiny apartment. She says, it was “so depressing, so isolating, so lonely.  I came from a […]

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Filed Under: Finding Good Housemates, Real People Sharing Housing, Should I Share Housing? Tagged With: companionship, expenses, guests, home-sharing, housemate, loneliness, meals, roommates, Social isolation, stories

Minor League Baseball Players Share Housing

May 25, 2012 by Annamarie Leave a Comment

Minor league players don’t get luxury accommodations with nice hotels. Her is another great example of how people are sharing housing to manage high rents and low incomes. Plus they get to have new friends. From Cincinnati a lovely article “Host Families Play Major Role in Minor League” on how the baseball players are hosted by […]

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Filed Under: Real People Sharing Housing Tagged With: Affordability, expenses, home-sharing, roommates

Bluechips – Finance for people who share housing

February 25, 2010 by Annamarie Leave a Comment

I recently posted about Housemate’s Companion, an out-of-the-box app for Windows users who simply use computers. For those who program in Python, Bluechips offers a package designed for “small groups of people who share expenses.” I don’t know how good it is. But really how bad can it be when the developer(s) use the Stooges […]

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Filed Under: Keeping Good Housemates Tagged With: bills, costs, expenses

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