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May. 21st, 2008 09:13 ammy 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?
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?
