One beach house. Shared for more than 100 years.

I built SplitHaus from the rules that helped our family keep sharing it.

Four women smiling over the fence in front of the shingled house with red trim.
My great-grandma and three of her sisters at the house.

In 1921, my great-grandma, her four sisters, and their mother came to Oregon in a Model T. They settled in Portland, where all five sisters became teachers, and four of them bought a house on the coast to spend their summers. My grandpa and his three siblings grew up going there, and later they inherited it. Sharing it four ways took rules, and they made most of the ones the family still follows.

My grandpa handed down two jobs to me: keeping the house calendar and managing the finances. That means working out everyone's share, paying the bills, and making sure we set money aside for bigger things like a new roof. The calendar used to hang on the refrigerator. Now I do both jobs in SplitHaus, with the same rules our family has followed for decades.

Every group shares differently. I built SplitHaus to fit the way yours divides the time, splits the costs, and makes decisions together, so the house stays a place everyone looks forward to.

The rules SplitHaus is built on

The house at dusk, seen across tall dune grass with hills behind it.
From the dunes, years ago.

Everyone gets a turn at the good weeks.

Take turns, pick dates, or book as you go. The calendar keeps to whatever your group chooses.

Unused dates should get another chance.

When someone cannot go, their dates open up for someone who can.

Everyone should know where the money stands.

Shared costs are visible to everyone, so no one person has to explain the spreadsheet.

Hi, I'm Dan.

Dan as a baby, laughing in a little wooden chair, with Grandpa sitting beside him.
At our house on the Oregon coast, 1985. Grandpa explains that someday the calendar will be my problem.

SplitHaus started with our house, and I still run it. If something is confusing or does not work, write to me. I read every message.

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