Guides to sharing a vacation home
Practical guides for everyone who shares a vacation home, whether family or friends: how to split the calendar, write house rules everyone agrees on, and handle the situations that come up over the years.
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Splitting the calendar
How families divide weeks, holidays, and the nights nobody uses.
Splitting the calendar
When one family never uses the vacation home
What to do when one household in a shared vacation home rarely or never comes: how to talk about it and how unused time can reach someone else.
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Splitting the calendar
Who gets the Fourth of July? A holiday rotation for a shared vacation home
How families share holiday weeks at a vacation home, with rotation examples for three and four groups you can copy.
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Rules and agreements
House rules, written plans, and the yearly meeting that keeps them current.
Rules and agreements
Shared vacation home agreement: how to set calendar rules
Write the calendar part of your shared vacation home plan: turns, holidays, unused nights, changes, and who keeps the current schedule.
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Rules and agreements
Family cabin rules: a template your whole family can agree on
A copy-ready set of house rules for a shared family cabin or vacation home, covering stays, guests, pets, spending, and the checkout list.
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Family and friends
Siblings, friends who bought a place together, growing families, and keeping everyone involved.
Common questions
What is the simplest way to share a vacation home?
For two or three groups, a rotation of equal blocks with a release date for unused time is the easiest to explain and keep track of. Five ways to split the calendar
What should family cabin rules cover?
How many people can stay, guests and pets, what anyone can spend without asking, the checkout list, and how the rules change. The family cabin rules template
How do siblings share an inherited vacation home?
Agree who shares it, how much time each household gets, how holidays work, and who looks after the house. Take ownership and tax questions to a professional. Inheriting a vacation home with siblings
Where do we start?
Answer a few questions together and write the answers down. The free Shared House Playbook walks you through them one at a time. Open the Shared House Playbook
Make your own house plan
The free Shared House Playbook walks everyone who shares the house through these decisions, one question at a time, and turns the answers into a written plan.
Open the Playbook