{"id":10458,"date":"2024-09-07T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/i-was-divorced-and-missed-having-company\/"},"modified":"2024-09-07T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T20:38:17","slug":"i-was-divorced-and-missed-having-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/i-was-divorced-and-missed-having-company\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was divorced and missed having company&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/dec\/14\/spareroom-founder-new-york-rent-rupert-hunt\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">repeated the trick later that year in New York<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> when he hired a vast loft apartment in Manhattan as SpareRoom expanded to the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Homer, co-founder of UK property management advocacy group Progressive Property, says that SpareRoom has helped to improve the reputation and quality of shared renting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Modern shared accommodation has moved on significantly from the days of the rundown rent-a-room type affair of yesteryear,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With 80 employees, Rupert says that SpareRoom has an annual turnover of more than \u00a38.5m, and he is proud that the business has never needed any external investment. Gemma is still with the business too, running its Manchester office, while Rupert is based in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rupert, who has the chief executive title, is also continuing to enjoy having flatmates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sharing with people adds randomness to your day: someone may have cooked, or someone may want to go for a pint,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to have that company, it feels like a surrogate family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46453516?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He then repeated the trick later that year in New York, external when he hired a vast loft apartment in Manhattan as SpareRoom expanded to the US. Mark Homer, co-founder of UK property management advocacy group Progressive Property, says that SpareRoom has helped to improve the reputation and quality of shared renting. &#8220;Modern shared accommodation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[2738,5140,2956],"class_list":["post-10458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","tag-company","tag-divorced","tag-missed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10460,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions\/10460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}