A man I know bought a house that way something around forty years ago. Originally there were five or seven owners. By the time I met him, only three of the owners lived there: him, his wife (who may not have been one of the originals), and another.<p>After his wife died a couple of years ago, he began the process of selling it. This was complicated, and the fact that he had had the use of the house all those years led some of the other owners to say he should get a smaller proportion of the proceeds. I believe that this has all been resolved to his satisfaction, but I haven't seen him in a while.