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You will not be slumming it if your home is older than 10 years old, it has laundry in the basement, a small yard, or a dated kitchen or bathroom. Unless you have unlimited funds, you cannot have it all. Forty million people have filed or unemployment and you are complaining about not being able to find a $1.3 million home that meets your needs.[/quote]

Agree with immediate PP.  OP all of your wants are understandable but they are wants, not needs.  The kitchen isn't a big deal if you're planning a reno, so there's no reason to put it on the checklist up front.  Placement of laundry is a not a big deal, if you're redoing all the bathrooms you can move it upstairs at that time.  My guess is 4 bedrooms [b]upstairs [/b]is the real killer - you're essentially looking for 5+ bedroom houses with that requirement.  Depending on ages of the kids I'd rather they share a room until one can be on a different level than spend an extra $300k, but it takes all kinds.[/quote]

Make them share rooms. This is an easy fix that is probably good for the kids. [/quote]

That’s fine when the kids are young, but we have a mix of ages and genders that really doesn’t work long term.  And they have all 3 shared a bedroom for the last 6 years in our rental, so we wanted to give them some space finally after these MONTHS of togetherness.[/quote]

Your kids are fine now. All of them will be even better when none of them are sharing with two other kids. One will share with one, and one will not have to share. It will have improved for all. And they will have a million+ dollar home to sprawl in. This is a huge improvement all around.  That said, I am not sure why I am taking the time to convince a millionaire not to unnecessarily spend hundreds of thousands that they really want to spend.  It is not like you are going to otherwise use those hundreds of thousands to help the community. Do you, OP! Try to spread some of the reno work to small businesses![/quote]

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