Besides the baby sleeping in a portable crib in the office each night, most of our rooms are single purpose. We haven’t needed to increase our efficiency and make rooms multi-purpose because right now it works. Our space usage is terribly inefficient right now: our kids go to bed early and are small. This choice would significantly increase our cost of living for the duration.Īnother choice, one that I also like very much, is to invest in some space saving furniture and renovations to create more space and privacy for teens and parents. A townhouse or part of a house would also rent for more than what our apartment would rent for. We’d also pay tax on the rental income from renting out our home plus continue to pay condo strata fees each month and of course any repairs to our home. Plus, renting has some drawbacks in that you could lose your lease or the owner could sell and then you are stuck with the expense and hassle of moving again. The downside of course would be the hassle of moving and the increased cost. I like this idea and I think it could work very well. This would also give us more options for choosing a high school that has programs our children are interested in and a neighborhood that is walkable and has all the amenities we need and enjoy. Buy a home that works for most of your life, rent somewhere for the relatively small window where it doesn’t work. I think this is becoming a very acceptable idea in Vancouver’s crazy real estate market. One choice would be to rent a townhouse or upper portion of a house for three to five of the high school years. Scared but also aware that we have some choices. Parents have one apartment and the teen/early college boys have another.ĭon’t worry, we are both scared and daunted by the idea of our three boys – likely to be in the very tall range – living in this small-ish space with us. Maybe that is the solution? I rent a small apartment in my building during their teens years? Strangely enough there is a family in our building with that exact set up. Carmen told me I may want to move out when the boys hit the teen years because of the smell. The oft heard phrase I hear when people find out we have three children and live in a two bedroom apartment and that we hope to stay in this space is: just wait until they are teenagers! In fact there were some funny and informative comments of that exact nature in a few posts in this series.
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