That was something my stepdad was going to help me suggest (with his backing). I did once suggest maybe they could reconfigure things somehow. There’s a space under their sunroom at the back that is open, and there are some old bikes/ parts and garden hoses or cables or something, and I think a tire, etc. under there. A few random things. My kitchen and bathroom windows look out into that open gap. But I don’t really look out there. They could enclose it easily enough and even build stairs down from their place into it, and an outside access door for tenants, or just an outside access door for everybody (I lived in a suite like that when I was younger - laundry room for whole house I think was outside access, not ideal but we hardly ever have weather that would make that impossible - better than this arrangement because then nobody’s laundry has to be anyone else’s business) - he’s super handy when he wants to be. He could hook the machines up there. I bet it would take him a week if he got on it. He replaced my parents’ deck and built an extension on it. My stepdad, or somebody else might have helped him a little bit at the time, but he pretty much did it all himself. The art studio/ workshop he turned his detached garage into himself, is beautiful (no bathroom or kitchenette otherwise it’d make a nice bachelor pad, itself). He built their sunroom, actually. But they are reluctant to do anything to improve things down here. They got half way and stopped, it seems.
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