Seeking housing options

I'm going to live alone in my home. If the time comes I can't affore it, then it's a lot easier for me to imagine myself renting a room in someone else's home instead of the other way around. I'm very respectful of other people's property and I'm quiet, clean, and orderly. If I rented out a room in my house, I cannot know for sure if the renter would be respectful of my property or privacy, and once they've moved in, it might be hard to get them out.
 

Dr.Colosso said:
I could rent a room from an uptight middle aged woman as a 19 y o student. Does she clean the bath well enough? Bye bye. No way. Instead I lived with other students in a lovely mess. But nowadays in my country young people do that. Students. Houses are so scarse that they live in retirement homes or in a house with an elderly man, a young girl and she helps him with stuff he can't do and she really likes it.
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What country is that?
 
Ladybj said:
If you decide to get a renter, make sure you can afford monthly household expenses on your own, because if they choose to leave, their share of those expenses will go with them.
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And make sure they can pay their own share of household expenses. This could end up in a messy living expenses situation, when someone constantly grabs a can of coke from the refrigerator for free, and use your toilet paper for free...etc.
 
There are schemes here whereby you host an international student or a Uni student from a country/city area and both parties are vetted by the organisation running it and there are clear rules on payments, what is meant to be included etc.

It isn't something I would do, am too used to my own space to myself but it works well for some people
 
JMO. I think whether you are an introvert or an extrovert is probably a big factor.
Im an introvert. I dont want extra people in my space. IF. And thats a big if.
I had to have a roommate I would want them to have their own separate area.
I could rent out the upstairs if I was so inclined. Theres four bedrooms and a bath up there.

I have had people approach me about renting. They seem to think I lonely here in this big old two story.
Maybe when I get old I might change my mind. Probably not though. :D
 
As an introvert and a night owl (and as a person who gets up multiple times during the night to pee), I would much prefer to live on my own, even if I had to live in a teensy tiny studio.

I was a lot more accustomed to sharing spaces when I was young, I really wonder now how 5 girls sharing a dorm apartment with one bathroom worked so well. But even when I was malleable it was sometimes a pain to have roommates (such as the one with the ivy plant trained to grow all over the wall on her side of the room and in our 'equally' shared chores I had to dust all the leaves every other week, ugh).
 
There is one good friend I'd let in as a room mate. However, she is nicely tucked away with her kids. No strangers for roomies here. I like living in my own place and doing what I want when I want.
 
I bet most seniors would prefer living alone. But, as much as they want to stay independent, one day the inevitable reality will come, you will need care. Nursing home are mostly shared rooms, private rooms probably cost double, and you still have uninvited guests (care givers) at any time. An older friend of mine who has Parkinson, and hired a live-in aid (fortunately he can afford it), but he hates to live with this aid but he has no choice.
 
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OldOld said:
I bet most seniors would prefer living alone. But, as much as they want to stay independent, one day the inevitable reality will come, you will need care. Nursing home are mostly shared rooms, private rooms probably cost double, and you still have uninvited guests (care givers) at any time. An older friend of mine who have Parkinson, and hired a live-in aid (fortunately he can afford it), but he hates to live with this aid but he has no choice.
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It’s definitely not inevitable that you will need care. Most of the people in my family lived alone until they either died or shortly before. In my condo building right now we have many people in their 80s living alone and a woman that is 93.
 
Veronica said:
JMO. I think whether you are an introvert or an extrovert is probably a big factor.
Im an introvert. I dont want extra people in my space. IF. And thats a big if.
I had to have a roommate I would want them to have their own separate area.
I could rent out the upstairs if I was so inclined. Theres four bedrooms and a bath up there.

I have had people approach me about renting. They seem to think I lonely here in this big old two story.
Maybe when I get old I might change my mind. Probably not though. :D
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need a partner?? -long term ?
 
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