{
  "id": 3963767,
  "title": "I spent a year living in a beach house with 7 friends. Splitting the bills was surprisingly easy — other things weren't.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/i-spent-a-year-living-in-a-beach-house-with-7-friends-splitting-the",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-28T12:43:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/shared-home-with-big-group-of-friends-better-than-expected-2026-8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Isabella Dallas spent a year living in a beach house with seven friends during her senior year of college. They shared a six-bedroom house in a popular beach town in California. Despite the challenges of fitting eight people into one home, splitting the finances was surprisingly easy. They split utilities and rent based on room size and kept a spreadsheet to avoid confusion. The only purchases made individually were groceries. Living together taught Isabella and her friends valuable lessons about communication, boundaries, and the true meaning of friendship.",
  "summary": "I spent a year sharing a home with seven of my best friends. Splitting the costs and creating spreadsheets made it cheaper and easier than expected.",
  "key_points": [
    "They shared a six-bedroom house in a popular California beach town.",
    "Splitting finances was easy with utilities, rent based on room size, and a spreadsheet for tracking."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}