roommate

    By Ron Dicker

    | 6:00PM 12/07/2010
    Nothing saves money on rent like having a roommate. But shopping for one during the holidays can be tough sledding. The season is hectic, and community-ad websites can invite creeps, scammers and flakes. Roommates Wanted NYC and like-minded organizers across the country believe they have the...

    By Charles Feldman

    | 4:30PM 2/10/2010
    It reportedly is a growing trend: people desperately trying to increase income to stave off foreclosure by renting out one or more rooms in their own homes. In a telephone interview with WalletPop, Sharleen Kilgore, of California-based Project Sentinel, a non-profit agency that offers free housing...

    By Jami Bernard

    | 6:30PM 11/10/2009
    Imagine you're a teenage boy whose parents are helping you move into your freshman dorm. Ooh, the excitement of starting college! You and Dad are hauling some cartons in, when suddenly you stumble across Mom having some kind of orgasmic têtê-à-têtê with your dorky new...

    By Josh Smith

    | 3:00PM 8/15/2008
    Nowadays, some students are easily spending $500 or more on textbooks each semester, prompting some professors to provide their new books online for students anywhere to use for free.Since this is unfortunately not yet the norm in many institutions around the nation, in a few weeks most parents and...