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The second of two posts about ways that sharing can help people find suitable accomodation solutions, specificaly looking at: Homeshares – see previous post Housing co-operatives For those who want to move on from the house/flat/home share scenario, who need more space and somewhere long term to live, and who may have children too, the [...] Many people are struggling with housing costs, whether they want to rent or buy. Students and recent graduates are having a particularly hard time. If they want to buy in the future they need to save, but rents are so high that this can be impossible. Families with young children are also finding it difficult [...] I’ve just added a post to Shareable.net’s excellent website about every aspect of sharing. It is an introductory piece explaining the basics issues to be discussed when you are creating a new private syndicate, called How to share the big stuff. I often comment on articles about fractional ownership and timeshare: they aren’t the easiest conscepts to understand and their are many misconceptions. However this recent article on ehow is probably the most misleading and garbled I’ve seen in a long time. Unfortunately there is obviously a limit on the number of characters in a comment, [...] Over the next few days most of you will be celebrating Christmas and New Year with family and friends. I’m guessing that some of you will end up discussing plans for the future, including the purchase of boats, cars, motor homes and holiday homes. When you think about it, these major assets are almost always [...] Several months ago I stumbled upon the website couch surfing, a worldwide network for making connections between travellers and the local communities they visit. (According to Wikipedia, couch surfing is the practice of moving from one friend’s house to another, sleeping in what ever spare space is available, floor or couch, generally staying a few [...] About a month ago there was a great article in the Daily Mail discussing fractional ownership and private syndicates. Two yours2share members who share more than one major asset were interviewed: Graham Price shares a property and boat in France; and Bill Hosie shares a boat and an aircraft. This created a great deal of [...] Most sharing arrangements quickly find they need some kind of reservation system so that people can easily see who and when partners are using the shared asset. If they have an arrangement where free time can be booked on a first come basis, then they need the system to enable them to make the reservation [...] 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 [...] Here is a great case study on shareable.net about sharing a house written by Janelle Orsi, attorney. The people are based in California, but the advice applies anywhere. I’ve written before about sharing houses, in Suffolk and in Streatham. To make this work you do need to put in considerable thought, discussion and negotiation at the beginning, [...] |
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