I want my retirement home to have Airbnb amenities

[Anonymous]

I want an arcade room and a media room, a hot tub, a sauna, a fire pit. I want a cozy fireplace with a comfy chair I can curl up in. I want views. A wall of windows.

I find it so interesting that we build houses like we always have but when we vacation we rent houses that are fun! Why don’t we just build and live in fun houses?

[Anonymous]

Because you get bored of them if they are an everyday thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want an arcade room and a media room, a hot tub, a sauna, a fire pit. I want a cozy fireplace with a comfy chair I can curl up in. I want views. A wall of windows.

I find it so interesting that we build houses like we always have but when we vacation we rent houses that are fun! Why don’t we just build and live in fun houses?

Because the fun is in not maintaining them.

[Anonymous]

I have all of those things except the hot tub- I do have a huge bathtub though. The kids only use the arcade type games when they have friends over. We use the sauna a lot

[Anonymous]

So do it! Most of that stuff is fairly cheap in the scheme of things. The views are the only thing that require big money and/or a remote location--everything else is doable.

[Anonymous]

Our retirement home has most of that. We do rent it out on VRBO for now.

[Anonymous]

None of that stuff is very expensive to add if your house is a decent size. But an arcade loses its novelty very quickly, and a media room is basically duplicative of a family room. A hot tub, sauna, and/or fire pit are nice if you actually would use them regularly.

Why don't you add this stuff to your house if you want it?

[Anonymous]

I’ve got a sauna, heated plunge pool and fire pit at my beach house, which will eventually be our retirement house. Also lots of lawn games.

The sauna came with the house. I’ve never used it. We don’t use the fire pit as much as we should. Use the pool a ton.

[Anonymous]

We have had a hot tub for several years as well as a pool. At the end of a hard week there is nothing like having a glass of wine in the hot tub. In retirement I plan to do a lot of that. We will probably put in a sauna and fire pit also. I don't regard those as indulgent extras as much as part of the good life.

[Anonymous]

We have a sauna, pool and firepit in our second home on the eastern shore. We will keep that one and our main home at the start of retirement, I don’t know where we will end up.

[Anonymous]

There's nothing preventing you from having any amenities you like in a home, retirement or otherwise, if you buy with those in mind. For example, I made sure my retirement house has 10ft ceilings in the basement, to accommodate a golf simulator. I have dedicated space for a gym, and another for a specific hobby, etc. If you have the budget, and the foresight, anything is possible.

[Anonymous]

There is a condo in Great Neck Long Island by train station when I lived there that has the following:
24/7 Valet Parking, 24/7 doorman, they wash your car weekly, they take care of all car maint for you, oil changes, tires etc., they do supermarket shoping and stock your fridge, weekly maid service, daily happy hour with wine and cheese in lobby and in morning fresh coffee, bagels and pasteries, all deliveries they bring up to your unit. Pool, gym, underground parking but you will never go down there And they are located at Great Neck train station with own private ramp down to platform which is 23 minutes to Manhattan.

The maintence will make you vomit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a condo in Great Neck Long Island by train station when I lived there that has the following:
24/7 Valet Parking, 24/7 doorman, they wash your car weekly, they take care of all car maint for you, oil changes, tires etc., they do supermarket shoping and stock your fridge, weekly maid service, daily happy hour with wine and cheese in lobby and in morning fresh coffee, bagels and pasteries, all deliveries they bring up to your unit. Pool, gym, underground parking but you will never go down there And they are located at Great Neck train station with own private ramp down to platform which is 23 minutes to Manhattan.

The maintence will make you vomit.

You can’t do all that lead up and not say what the monthly fee is