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, [...]
I’d heard of cow sharing, where people pay for the purchase and upkeep of a whole, half or quarter of a cow which is then managed by a farmer, and this has always seemed such an easy idea.
I’d love to find someone to keep a chicken for me alongside their other chickens and as we [...]
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 [...]
yours2share had a good mention in this month’s edition of The Field in an article called Staying Afloat – surf the let. Here’s a some more explanation about fractional rental and a case study about Sheldon Manor in Wiltshire where several cottages and a wing are now let to several tenants who each rent for [...]
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.
A few weeks ago I met Gemma Thompson, a life coach and owner of a local Suffolk magazine Roundabout at a WiRE business networking meeting in Suffolk. I explained what yours2share is all about, as one does, and she surprised me by saying that she had bought a house with her parents and sister’s family, [...]
Last Sunday I was in the audience at the BBC’s The Big Questions programme. I went along because one of the questions being discussed was “Is it still acceptable to have a second home?” As you might expect my view is generally “yes, but I’d be happier if you shared it”.
One of the panellists was [...]
I’ve just found a wonderful website called Zoopla! Aside from having a fantastic name, Zoopla allows you to find out the “real” value of any property in the UK based on the latest price paid, taking account of local changes in value for similar sizes and types of property. We are in the midst of [...]
I was busy chatting someone on the phone yesterday and after my extended elevator pitch (ground to 100th floor return) the person I was explaining yours2share to exclaimed “You mean you’re a fractional e-bay”.
I thought it summed up yours2share rather well, even if there was a little flattery involved.
But I can see his point, yours2share [...]