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Fantasy house buying - would you share with extended family?

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JustaScratch · 21/05/2020 14:12

Fantasy house-buying conversation between me and DH - if we could buy a decent size house in the country that had cottages or separate annexes in the grounds, we could move into the big house and put my parents in a cottage and my sister in another cottage. I thought it was a joke, but he weirdly seems quite keen on the idea and has started to research houses...

Pros: near family; get much bigger garden/grounds; babysitter when needed; can support parents as they get older.

Cons: may be privacy issues; potential challenges with doing it all legally and fairly, etc; may find mother wants to chat over coffee every morning when I need to get on!

This is all pure fantasy for now what with everything that's going on - but would you ever consider something like this, if you could? What would be your ground rules?

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JustaScratch · 25/05/2020 10:36

Love all these responses but it hasn't put us off yet! I think the main concern is, as some have said, what happens in 5 years when one of us wants to move elsewhere but the others don't?

Anyway, I'm going to keep fantasizing about places like this for the time being...

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65595030.html

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lyralalala · 25/05/2020 10:54

My MIL lives with us so we could do this easily. I’d also happily have Other-MIL (DH was widowed when we met so his MIL is a firm part of the family live close/next door too.

Not sure about BIL or SIL though. She’s been a bit loopy through lockdown about us “using elderly MIL for childcare”. I’m hoping it’s hormones and stress and she’ll go back to being lovely.

My family - not a fucking chance!

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