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 […]
Read More...Accordion House
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 […]
Read More...Benefits for Sharing Housing
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 […]
Read More...I’ll Never Live Alone Again
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 […]
Read More...Minor League Baseball Players Share Housing
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 […]
Read More...Bluechips – Finance for people who share housing
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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