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[bolson]

my recent poll, while full of other fascinating info, primarily fascinates me around the issues of live-in special others. I drew up the poll after thinking, 'What if I buy a house/condo, and then find a girlfriend who wants to move in?'

It was once the situation where my girlfriend wrote me a medium check and I wrote the landlord a big check. "Splitting rent with a live-in SO is fine"
Maybe it'll be OK if I remember that for the most part I won't really (right away) own the place and it's really the same sequence: she writes me a check, I write the bank a big check.

Maybe some of the potential for weirdness comes from the 'sweetheart deal'. How much discount do I give my theoretical SO-renter? Somewhere between 0 and 100%, most likely. I guess that is just another one of those relationship things that would have to be negotiated and there isn't so much a general purpose right answer. Why is everything one of those things?

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[catya.livejournal.com]

What we did at homeport was base the split on income. (both the split of the mortgage and therefore the ownership percentage)

[queen-of-wands.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when soong and I moved in together, he paid more for rent than I did but his income was higher than mine, and both of us paid less than we had been in our previous apartments. So I think we were both winning.