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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks everyone, this is as helpful. Sounds like get an architect, structural engineer, deal with construction for the next year and either move or do things in sequence.

If we wanted to buy what we currently have, we’d be priced out of the area, even with the work needed. And I don’t want to live in a bland new development. When the kid gets older and/or when the grandparents decide to move, we’ll revisit. [/quote]

You are inserting a lot of binaries in your decision making. Yes, it's nice grandparents live across the street. But in a major city there are plenty of neighborhoods and exactly how far from your grandparents do you need to go to find decent housing? If we're talking of Philadelphia, it's not a case of having to chose between living across from grandma in South Philadelphia or Overbrook and living way out in Exton (and leaving aside that much of urban Philadelphia is pretty bland in the first place). And how do you know your kid will want the house someday? Expecting to pass down the house is unusual? Is this a family compound situation? [/quote]

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