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Sharing in action

Do you share a house, car, motorhome, boat, aircraft dog, horse or anything else? I’m always looking for examples of sharing in action to blog about on yours2share and, if they are really good and two or more partners are willing to be interviewed, for case studies.  If you are happy to tell me about [...]

Social rental websites

This article about rental websites in the Boston Globe came to my attention today.  I’m pleased to find out about a few more rental websites, I knew about Rentalic but there are several mentioned that I hadn’t heard about before.

As the article says:

But the biggest challenge may be cultural. Americans are accustomed to having many [...]

Monday to Friday rents

At yours2share, we have lots of people using us to let and find weekday lodgings.  I had an interesting question sent in through the comments last week and thought I’d post the question and answer here, as I get so many (what do I charge?” questions.

Question If a lodger has been quoted a weekly Monday [...]

The Sunday Times mentions yours2share

We had a great mention in last weekend’s Sunday Times in an article called How to find affordable homes by the sea.

What they didn’t mention is the yours2share method of renting a second home:  find one or two like-minded people/couples or families who will rent your weekend cottage for (say) a weekend or week each [...]

What do I charge a weekday lodger?

I’m asked this question all the time.  It’s the reason for most of the phone calls to yours2share.  People who are considering renting out a room from Monday to Friday are often first time landlords and have no idea what the value of the room is. And of course I have no idea either because [...]

Growing your own

I’ve just found that yours2share has climbed to third place in the listings if you search on Google for landshare, and following a few links as you do, found an enormous amount of information on allotments, growing your own fruit and veg, organic produce and sustainable food.  I suppose that given “Britain is a nation [...]

yours2share on YouTube

I’ve finally managed to get yours2share’s video onto YouTube!

If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.

Monday to friday lettings

The last yours2share newsletter had a piece about Monday to Friday rentals and this generated the highest number of click-throughs from the newsletter by a very big margin.  So I thought I’d have an overhaul of the weekday lettings guidance pages.

The information is split into three sections: for landlords, for tenants and for companies with [...]

Swimming pool sharing buddy wanted

Surlingham private pool

One form of sharing that I particularly love is sharing a private swimming pool.  I love swimming but I’m a long way from a public pool and they never thrill me too much at the best of times.  So I was delighted when I moved to Norfolk a year ago to find [...]