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Published on: 4/10/2008
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"This is a trend that is very real," says Jim Parker, broker-owner of Access Brokerage Real Estate Services in Marietta, Ga.
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Parker has been looking into types of communal living at the request of a number of people in their mid-50s who have come to him with questions about the possibility of trying this kind of living arrangement as they age.
"A lot of people end up single in retirement," he says."They may not be well off enough to just go out and buy a house, and they're looking for other choices besides renting."
For these folks, Parker says, some kind of communal arrangement is a practical alternative.