‘In Over Their Heads’: Red Flags Before the Sudden Collapse of ‘Perpetual Cruise’ That Left Residents Stranded

Kit Cassingham credits her yoga practice and her experience as a life coach with keeping her sane these days. And Cassingham has a lot of reasons to feel crazy: Earlier this week, she and her husband Randy were told to permanently disembark from the Villa Vie Residences Odyssey cruise ship they’d been living on for the last two years. The Cassinghams, along with around 200 or so fellow passengers, were told that the Villa Vie Odyssey had run out money and could no longer afford fuel, so passengers would need to collect their belongings and find another place to live. Their odyssey with the Odyssey started more than two years ago, when Cassingham and her husband decided to sell the dream home they had built in Colorado. “Randy realized he was allergic to Colorado,” Cassingham told Realtor.com. “He was allergic to four-legged animals, mold, dust, grasses, weeds, pinyon and juniper trees. And we lived in a pinyon-juniper forest. His allergies got worse and worse, and even his allergists couldn't stay on top of it.”So, the couple decided a never-ending cruise was the one place where Randy might be safe from the scourge of grass and tree allergies.The Cassinghams initially put a deposit...