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...spends most of her days at the Cypress Hills apartment, where she reads the Bible and watches the big-screen TV. She, Roger and Roger's son Kadeem live mostly on the salary Roger makes as a pressman for a direct-mail firm. Genelle has received some financial aid--rent from the Red Cross, lost wages from Safe Horizon, the victim-assistance group--but she doesn't plan to go for big bucks with a lawsuit. She met with a lawyer, but in the end she decided to apply for the victims' compensation fund. "I'm a Christian...
...then there's the maintenance and the commitment to sail from a single port. Sailing courses, however, free their students from these costs and limitations. That's because U.S. certifications are accepted in most ports around the country and the world. Graduates can use their certification to rent a craft, usually for less than $50 an hour...
...rental option is especially popular with sailors who love to travel and try the waters in different locations. With a sailing certification, you can live in Los Angeles and rent a boat nearby, or try a different craft and scene for the weekend up the coast in San Francisco, or take a weeklong vacation cruise in the Adriatic, with a boat rented out of Venice. "People make more money today, but they've got less leisure time," says Cai Svendsen, owner of Castle Harbor. "So it's not that they can't afford to own a boat; many are just...
...Private rooms rent for $65 a night in summer, $75 in winter. A private apartment...
...house is mainly about companionship, not money. Never married, Root, a retired vocational counselor, uses a wheelchair, although he has some mobility in his legs. He relies on his housemate, construction worker Eduard Koopman, 54, to shop for his groceries once a week. In exchange, he offers reduced rent. His previous housemate, Maureen Salazar, 54, is a single woman who three years ago decided to leave the corporate world to pursue life as an artist. "I had to cut my living expenses," she says, "and what Mike offered, in addition to his whole basement for my studio, was rent that...