Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Finding A Place Called Home

Priscilla and Ed Gruber spent more than a decade looking for a place they dreamed of calling home.  They wanted to be in the country, which they hoped would be three to 10 acres.  Using stubborn persistence, in the late 1970’s they found five acres on Ridge Road in Plainfield, where they still live today. 

However, things have changed greatly.  The original four-bedroom home has expanded into a five-bedroom residence including in-law quarters and a law office.  Three of the four original occupants live here (Ed, Priscilla and Patricia), but there are three other later-arriving interlopers – specifically, Patricia’s husband and two children. 

We didn’t envision this as recently as ten years ago.  Now, it seems like the most natural thing to have joined forces to give both families more together than either could have had alone.  It simply works. 

How did we get here?  Well, we are attorneys, so you can be sure it was a complicated path, no matter how simple it seems now.  And we have much of our plans down on paper. 

We repeatedly had to make adjustments to those plans to adapt them to how things actually worked out rather than how we thought they might. 

An architect once told us that it is much easier to change plans on paper than it is to change them during construction.  We have confirmed that to be true, which we will go into more in the next weeks. 

In the meantime, the architect and we attorneys are in agreement that written plans are crucial to good results.  For help considering and documenting your own plans for multi-generational living, call our office at (815) 436-1996 to set an appointment.  ©2012 Gruber Law Office, Ltd.


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