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[quote=Anonymous]If space and privacy are the major stumbling blocks, is there any chance of you moving to a house in the same area but with a better layout -- once that has an in-law suite or could be finished to have one, for example? My parents did this when they were contemplating having my grandmother move in with us. They'd been thinking of moving anyway to get away from duplex living, and so when they started the move-in discussions, they made sure to find a single family home that had a ground floor bathroom and bedroom that could be cut off from the rest of the house with a sliding door. As it turned out my grandmother, in the end, did not want to move, and passed away about two years after we moved into the house. But my parents appreciated having that option and the extra privacy of the sliding door, and my dad has continued to use that part of the house as his private hole for the last 20-odd years. It is something I have thought about too because there is no reasonable way to renovate our tiny colonial in such a fashion, so should my parents or ILs ever need to live with us, we definitely would need to move.[/quote]

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