# Buying a house with an SO to whom you are not married **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-with-an-so-to-whom-you-are-not-married/666831 "2013-08-21T22:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-with-an-so-to-whom-you-are-not-married/666831/41 "2013-10-07T18:02:37Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > You mean the house they just bought last month? Damn, I’d have thought they’d at least make it to Halloween. 😛 She’s renting out the house she just moved from. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-with-an-so-to-whom-you-are-not-married/666831/42 "2013-10-07T18:16:13Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > [And what if mom can’t legally marry her partner, so a judge therefore mandates that they can’t live together if she wants to parent her kids?](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/05/22/carolyn_compton_page_price_citing_morality_clause_texas_judge_john_roach.html) There’s a lot more to this than perceived sluts wanting to slut around. You know, I agree with you, but let’s not pretend this is any less “judgey” than your reflexive response to misreading the OP. Anyhoo - buying a house as joint tenants is almost like being tenants by the entirety (the ownership married people have), but not quite. The ways it’s different are all worse for the joint ownership people. If you’re willing to buy a house with somebody, you’re probably ready to get married. If not, it’s probably smarter for one person to buy the house, and then if you get married, sign it over to both with a quit-claim deed. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-with-an-so-to-whom-you-are-not-married/666831/43 "2015-02-12T22:15:11Z")
Bumping an old thread: She’s started making multiple Facebook posts about what a wonderful man she has in her life, blah blah blah, etc. etc. etc. She’s done this kind of thing twice before, right before she separated from both husbands, which has me a bit worried. She also posted a picture on Facebook of a Valentine the daughter from her second marriage, who’s 8, made for her father. It’s a drawing of (presumably) dog poop. :eek: 😕 :dubious: Yeah, I know. Not my circus, not my monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-with-an-so-to-whom-you-are-not-married/666831/44 "2015-02-12T23:25:49Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > It’s none of your business whether they are going to have a successful relationship, are legitimately in love, or if she’s his beard. Sounds like she’s grown enough to make her own decisions. Stay out and stop being so judgey. This is pretty rude. Stop being so judgey. The OP can do whatever the heck they choose. Also, you are attacking the OP for no good reason. The OP hasn’t interfered, so your saying to ‘stay out’ is irrelevant and just being vicious for no good reason. And, the OP can define what is and isn’t their business; you are the outsider. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-house-with-an-so-to-whom-you-are-not-married/666831.md?page=2)