[quote=bearishgurl][quote=walterwhite]i think you can be socially liberal and still think unmarried people shouldn’t live together. It’s just not a good idea.[/quote]
scaredy, I consider myself a “social independent” and can agree that an unmarried heterosexual couple should NOT buy a house together for a WHOLE LOT of reasons, mostly being that I’ve just seen a lot of STUFF in my day. And yes, I’ve had buyer-clients in this category.
I have NO problems with unmarried couples living together.
This is just a bad idea, overall, to buy a house with a partner you are not married to. The decision to do this is fraught with minefields.
You gotta ask yourself, if a couple wants to do this, why don’t they just get married first??
What is the REASON keeping them from marrying???[/quote]
Agree 100%.
It’s not the “living together” that’s a problem, it’s the unwillingness to commit to marriage that’s the issue; buying a house (or having kids…don’t even get me started) is often a much bigger commitment, financially, but for some reason people jump into these decisions while being afraid of getting married.
This is especially important to consider when we are still in a potentially deflationary environment. What if the relationship doesn’t work, and the house is 30% underwater?
Like you, BG, I’ve also seen this end in ugly, ugly ways. If one is not committed enough to marry a partner, then one should think long and hard before buying a house (or having kids!) with that person.
