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[quote=Anonymous]My family also lives in NoVa and while technically we have 1 bedroom unused, it’s my husband’s office with a queen pull out couch. It’s not the most luxurious accommodation, but it’s ridiculous to spend $$$$ more on a house for a room or two that get used maybe 2 weeks a year.

We did the math and we could pay for grandparents or siblings to stay at a nice full service hotel 1 mile from our house for more days a year than they will ever visit for the life of our 30 yr mortgage. We could take the $$$ not spent on the large house and pay for a cool air B&B in between for everyone to stay at for a week if we wanted to as well.

Finish your basement. Get one of your kids a trundle bed. Get another kid a double or queen bed. Have your kids do a sleeping bag slumber party with cousins and/or have them double up and give up their room for a few days. Our basement has a futon, a Murphy bed, and a small bath with a stall shower, no tub. When we re-do it (it was finished in the 90s) we’ll put a small fridge, sink, coffee station down there to make it more like a guest suite. All of these things are WAY cheaper and more practical than being house poor so you can live your HGTV dream life 1 week a year. 
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