The dates that cause trouble tend to come back at the same moments: school holidays, year-end celebrations, the period when everyone wants the home at the same time. The real cases grouped here deal with this seasonal dimension of sharing — anticipating before availability becomes scarce, and what a traditional seasonal rental changes compared with a loan between loved ones.
Three children, four cities, Christmases growing more spaced out. The house in Brittany was always there — what was missing was knowing who could come when.
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Isabelle had her house in the Luberon appraised twice in three years. She didn't sell it. Today the house is used about twenty weeks a year, and the costs are shared.
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The house in the Périgord stayed closed ten months a year, not for lack of desire but for lack of coordination. The problem wasn't the house: it was knowing who was going when.
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