Single Parents of Young Children - sharing housing ?

[Anonymous]

Move out of the district! Problem solved.

Seriously I rent a townhouse inside the beltway in a great school district in VA for $1800/m

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never do this. I am self supporting adult and I don't need or want to live in a roommate situation anymore. But more importantly, my child deserves the stability of a home. Rooming with people is not stability. No kid should have random people living with them because there parent is afraid of being alone or too cheap to make the sacrifices necessary. And yes, I am a single mom, and I make less than 6 figures and live in the DC area. One kid, private school, since preschool now in high school and we even take vacations and my kid has a college fund!

How's your retirement savings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never do this. I am self supporting adult and I don't need or want to live in a roommate situation anymore. But more importantly, my child deserves the stability of a home. Rooming with people is not stability. No kid should have random people living with them because there parent is afraid of being alone or too cheap to make the sacrifices necessary. And yes, I am a single mom, and I make less than 6 figures and live in the DC area. One kid, private school, since preschool now in high school and we even take vacations and my kid has a college fund!

If your kid is in HS, you probably bought a condo over ten-fifteen years ago. People who bought recently are playing a different, and much more financially ruinous ballgame.