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Outlook/Fi Real

Families by design

There is a new trend developing where unrelated people choose to pool resources and live together. They prove that the old saying 'Blood is thicker than water' is not true in all cases...

Land Ho!
Legal professionals may be advising caution in the area of joint home ownership, but many who feel they have no alternative are still willing to take the risk.

Fragile partnerships
The NHT, with its system of home purchase through combined trust shares, provides many examples of unrelated individuals pooling their resources for life. But, does it always work?

The obligation
Jennifer Keane-Dawes writes "An it turn out dat she had was fe tek out seben a fe har top teet. De man tell har seh awright, him woulda pay de two thousand five hundred dallah fe get har mout fix. Well, she go a dentist..."

Stay here and have fun!
Don't you just hate those persons who look down on you because they went abroad for summer vacation and you did not? Here is a typical post-summer vacation conversation at a school in Jamaica.

Would you prefer to spend your holidays here or abroad?
Sherrie, 13: "I would spend my holidays in Jamaica because of the tropical climate and scenery."


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