By sharing a home with fellow community members, you can alleviate financial burdens, enjoy companionship, and focus on living life to the fullest.

Finding “the one” to share your home with can be quite an adventure.

While every home and space is uniquely different, these design tips will generate ideas on how to divide the space in your home, providing for your roommates’ needs while protecting each others’ privacy and while living together in a shared setting.

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Not exactly a piece of cake for everyone!

If you are finding that you aren’t able to afford places in your ideal neighborhood or you don’t love what’s available in your price range, then consider sharing the costs with a roommate.

Other older singles seem to agree.

First time living in a shared house?

Of course, there are financial benefits, too!

If you have one housemate paying half of your rent or 50 percent of the costs of home ownership, your social security check will go that much further.

Here are 5 ways sharing your home can save you money.

Here’s a practical guide by roomi on living with a roommate.

Likewise, if your rent is getting too high, you can opt to move into someone else’s house.

See what kinds of rentals fit in your budget using tools like the zillow rent affordability calculator.

Increasingly, female boomers and older women — both bosom buddies and strangers — are moving in together as a way to save money and form a community.

Living with a roommate demands you to share resources and get along with different people.

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Boomers might seek a roommate for many reasons.

Maybe you’re lonely, or maybe you want to age in place as safely as possible.