[quote=walterwhite]…if the rooms empty anyway aren’t the parents being wasteful and nonproductive by nit utilizing a resource?…[/quote]
scaredy, the whole idea of being 59.5+ years old and thus able to tap retirement funds was to be free to leave work at a convenient time after that and downsize to a location you actually want to retire in. This is hard to do with “needy” adult children and possibly grandchildren you don’t want to be on the street living in your home. Often this is a function of your kid marrying and/or having children too young w/o already having a trade or viable work skills/experience.
I see a lot of these adult unemployed kids living with parents, making payments on newer vehicles they purchased AFTER moving “back home” and sporting professional manicures, etc. You have to ask yourself if they will ever be able to save up enough $$ to go out on their own (again). It takes two to tango here… an “enabling” parent and their “self-serving” adult kid. Perhaps some of these parents want to retire in place and need “free” household and landscaping help.
