You split the rent, but you’re the one responsible for actually making the rent payment. Would you be okay with waiting until ...

There are a lot of reasons people take on roommates, but one of the most common is simple economics: Rent keeps rising, half of all tenants in the U.S. are paying more rent than they can actually ...

Splitting rent with a roommate sounds simple—until someone ends up paying the same amount for a smaller room and is forced to share a bathroom. Or if one person is a grad student and the other is ...

And the trend isn’t confined to 40-somethings. The share of homeowners age 65 and older who are taking on roommate has also ...