Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Hindsight Fast Forward

Of course, hindsight is 20/20, and, fortunately for our reading audience, it’s also a lot faster than real life.  Our first plan to live multi-generationally was simple. 

Priscilla and Ed would downsize from their 5-acre, 5-bedroom home to a new smaller place on a vacant lot nearly adjoining Patricia’s home.  The two households would be separate yet close enough to walk.  Nothing would merge financially.  Simple.

Oops.  Simple didn’t turn out so simple.  The perfect retirement home was hard to design on the new lot.  Worse, it turned out that the new place might well have cost more than the big five-acre place they already had, and they would lose their truly rural lifestyle in the new subdivision. 

Plus, Patricia’s hoped-for children were reluctant to get started, meaning no baby would be there to ease the initial transition from big to small. 

We still wanted our families to be able to help each other more easily and obtain a truly convenient office for our shared business.  But doing that by first having Priscilla and Ed move closer to Patricia was clearly not going to work.

Good thing our plan was still only on paper.  As the architect told us, it is much easier to make changes to the design before breaking ground.  After over a year, we were back to the drawing board.

For help considering your own multi-generational plans, whether they are for living together or making multi-generational teamwork easier some other way , please call our office at (815) 436-1996 for an appointment to discuss.  ©2012 Gruber Law Office, Ltd.


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