<prompt> Human: Im considering buying a house with my cousin. We both work in software and live in the Bay Area. Rent is definitely a big cost for us. We cant currently individually afford a house, but we canwith our combined incomes. Crunching just the numbers, it seems we could save a lot.Im not sure how exactly dividing up the house would work up though. What approaches can we do to make this work? So far were thinking splitting 5050. Does anyone else have experience doing this? edit: we currently live together  <response>: Before entering into this venture you should consider contingencies. Either plan on one slowly buying the other out of their half or a contingency that builds out sale conditions. The main reason you want this is because your lives arent always going to be as they are today. What about if one moves for work or gets married or has a bastard child? 