Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates - Softcover

Jefferson Thomas; Annamarie Pluhar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872331431 ISBN 13: 9780872331433

Publisher: Bauhan Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

This book maps out the path from the original thought, ""Maybe I should find a housemate,"" to actually living with one. Like a guidebook for tourism or hiking, this book describes the milestones and choices on the path. Pluhar shows where the traps and snags are, as well as where the well-trodden and proven paths can be found. There are stories about others who are sharing housing and the methods they have found that work for them. Like finding a job, finding a good housemate is a process with definite steps and decisions. This book maps that process, with helpful advice about what to look for, what to avoid, and when specific actions need to be taken. In conjunction with her blog, www.sharinghousing.com, Pluhar provides worksheets in the book as well as on the website for downloading. This book will hold the hand of the people seeking good housemates-the ones with whom they would wish to live in harmony and comfort.

About this title

About the Author:

Annamarie Pluhar is a consultant with expertise in group dynamics, interpersonal relations, and instructional design. Living in shared housing for over 20 years,  she has developed a practical process for selecting and keeping good housemates. Her blog,  www.sharinghousing.com, a companion to this book, contains commentary, additional tools, and discussion options for home sharers everywhere. She lives in Dummerston, Vermont with one two-legged and two four-legged housemates.

From the Inside Flap:

For the past sixty years, Americans have concentrated on building bigger houses farther apart from each other. It's been environmentally ruinous, and it's made us kind of lonely. Here's a good practical antidote! —Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth This book is great! Full of commonsense advice and great tips, relevant for people of any age seeking to take on a housemate.—Elizabeth Mills, OBE Hon. Director, Homeshare International, Oxford, England This book is incredibly helpful to anyone thinking of living with housemates. [It] makes clear what works. Pluhar has the experience to make her teaching points in a completely practical and gentle way. She has taken a topic, which has great relevance in our world where sharing will have to become more usual, and made it lucid and readable. Bravo on a job well done! —Jacqueline Olds, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School Co-author of The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century I think this book will become a “must have‚” in the years ahead as people want to or are forced to find ways to conserve resources, space, and emotional energy! —Annette Leahy Maggitti Program Director, St. Ambrose Homesharing The time for shared housing has come. Those of us who work with women interested in building community through sharing housing resources are thrilled to see a book such as this to guide our work and also to make available to women such as those joining Golden Girl Homes. Annamarie has brought together wonderful stories and a terrific framework for building rental income while sharing lives. I highly recommend it to anyone looking at this option.—Connie Skillingstad, President, Golden Girl Homes, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bauhan Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0872331431
• ISBN 13: 9780872331433
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160