Michele Smith and Jenny Young, the best of friends, were in their mid-50’s when fear of illness and incapacity set them to joking, bleakly, about side-by-side rocking chairs at an old folks’ home.  Instead, they decided to pool their resources, build a home in a gentle climate, divide the chores,…

You don’t need to be young to benefit from having a roommate. Homesharing is for older people, too. Everyone in the homesharing arrangement is free to use the common areas of the house, like the kitchen and living room. Yet everyone has personal space, usually a bedroom, where they can…

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A lot of people have asked me where I got the idea for this web site. It’s simple really, when I needed it, it wasn’t there.  I had sold my house in the bay area about five years ago with the intention of moving to Mexico. Life intervened and instead…