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...dedicate three hours each weekday to those chores. Similarly, Gerry Freitas, an athletic recruiter based in San Jose, Calif., enjoyed a collegial relationship with his housemate but asked her to leave after she started slacking off on the typing she had agreed to do in exchange for reduced rent. "I can't say, 'I have a nice friend,' and let my work fall by the wayside," he says...
Shorty after Stephen McCarthy moved to Las Vegas in 2004, he offered a female friend an interesting proposition: if she kept the place tidy, cleaned up after his dog Maya and brought in the paper each morning, she could live in his house rent free. It worked well until, McCarthy says, his friend began to get possessive, jealously questioning him when he went out on dates. Her argument that she had a right to ask after his whereabouts since she did "everything, just like a wife," prompted him to ask her to move out after a year. "That...
...want someone to look after him without having to take on the financial burden of hiring a housekeeper or the emotional commitment of living with a lover. He found the solution in what you might call an adult au pair. With more Americans single than ever and rents sky high in cities like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, many women are open to the idea of keeping house for a casual acquaintance or even a stranger in exchange for a rent-free place to stay--as long as there are no sexual strings attached. According...
...course, human relations aren't as easily managed as real estate transactions. "There have been one or two occasions when I've gotten involved," admits Bruce Kramer, 57, a divorced auctioneer who has had more than 12 people in as many years do housekeeping in exchange for free rent in his Brewster, N.Y., home. "Guys," he says, "always have it in the back of their mind...
...Today, she doesn't have to. Nhan is training for a new job on the assembly line at a sprawling Canon factory recently completed a few kilometers down the road from the propaganda sign. Nhan will be making $50 a month, enough to rent a small apartment. "When I earn lots of money," she says, "I want to send money to my parents and maybe buy a motorbike for myself." Nhan isn't the only one with high hopes. Set to begin production this month, the Bac Ninh factory is Canon's second in northern Vietnam, and a third...