[RosemarySoso]

None of my business but I think you’re nuts if you’re buying for children and grandchildren. A. They have their own busy lives and won’t visit as much as you think and B. It would be fun for them to sleep in a hotel.

[cj1040]

This is TRUE - Our former house up north was a 5 BR 4 BA on a 40 mile long lake and we had kayak, sail boat, paddle board and much more and were 7-8 hour drive from 2 sets of grand kids who made it back about ONCE a year !!! It was like a hotel once our daughters married and moved out , NOW in our Florida house we have ONE guest room and the kids can go on an air mattress when they come which I doubt will be yearly. We visit them in the summers and we were mostly visiting them before as well.

[cj1040]

TRUE - you have to really stretch the house by custom building to make the extra bedrooms useful. We just built a woodside. You get bigger bedrooms in the 3 bedroom houses. I made the 3rd bedroom in the woodside into a storage closet. so I have a 4/2 house which is fine but we stretched it in all directions. I needed a sewing studio and we needed a den/office so we have one guest room plus the master.