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There was a great piece in Saturday’s Daily Mail about fractional living with a good mention of various sharing arrangements. Two yours2share members were interviewed and it explained how private syndicates work and the benefits. I couldn’t have written it better if I’d tried. Many thanks to the two members, Graham Price and Bill Hosie: to [...] Anyone who has ever owned a boat will tell you that the ongoing mooring and maintenance costs can be considerable. One of the major advantages of sharing a boat is sharing these costs. So I read this article in the Wall Street Journal today with a little amusement. Sunk costs details the running costs of superyachts. [...] 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 [...] Whenever I’ve spoken to the Financial Times, or other publications aimed at people earning higher salaries, about yours2share and sharing in general, I’ve tended to get a fairly sniffy response. Either they think their readers would only consider buying outright, or they immediately mentally file all sharing as timeshare. So I was surprised to see this [...] 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 heard about this two years ago when I first started yours2share, and it spurred me along. It is the wonderful tale of 13 women who bought a beautiful diamond necklace together in the US. I have been reminded of the story because a book has just been released about the women and [...] There have been a couple of particularly mouth watering properties posted on yours2share in the last couple of weeks, so I thought I’d share them with you. In my entirely subjective opinion, and based only on the pictures, and for no addition payment or commission whatsoever, I wish I had a few thousand spare. Unfortunately [...] After explaining what yours2share is all about to someone today, they exclaimed, “a marriage bureau for assets”, and I thought this was rather delicious. I’ve spent ridiculous amounts of time on the so-called elevator pitch and this seemed to reduce it to just four words. OK, I then have to add a fair bit of [...] |
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