Build your together home.

One property set up so more than one generation of a family can live there with real privacy. In practice that means separate living areas with their own entrances, often a second kitchen, and shared space everyone uses. Some are a single house divided into wings. Others are a main house plus a second home on the same lot.

A home where two or more adult generations live together, usually parents and their adult children, sometimes with grandchildren. Nearly 60 million Americans live this way, four times as many as in 1971. The versions that last give each generation its own private space rather than just a spare bedroom.

An in-law suite, sometimes called a mother-in-law suite, is usually one bedroom and a bathroom attached to the main house. A compound gives each generation a genuinely separate living area, often with its own kitchen and entrance, so nobody's a guest in someone else's home.

Yes. Both can be on the title, and lenders will look at combined income and assets. Families often do it because together they can buy a property neither could buy alone. What matters most is deciding in advance who owns what share, who pays for what, and what happens if someone wants out.

Usually, when it is permitted and built properly. A legal second unit or a self-contained suite widens the pool of future buyers and can produce rental income. Unpermitted work does the opposite: it can complicate financing and slow a sale. Permits matter more than finishes here.

It depends on what you start with. Turning a standard house into a genuine multi-generational home usually means a second kitchen, a separate entrance, and a reworked layout, which in the Seattle area often runs into the hundreds of thousands. Buying a property with more to work with, or land you can build on, is often the better path.

Every project is different, so we scope and price it after we understand what you are working with. That is one of the things the first call is for. We'll never quote you a number before we know enough to stand behind it.

You decide, and you put it in writing before closing. Families buying together commonly hold title as tenants in common, which lets each party own a defined share instead of an automatic equal split. Shares can reflect what each side actually contributed, and it's worth recording contributions separately from ownership percentages.

You plan for it up front. A written agreement sets out how someone can be bought out, how the property gets valued, who has the first right to buy, and how much notice is required. Families who settle this before buying avoid ending up where selling the whole property is the only option left.

The build side of this program is live in Greater Seattle first, because that's where our building partner works. We're expanding to other metros, so email compound@cobuy.io and we'll let you know when we reach your area. Everything else we do, helping families structure, finance, and govern owning a home together, we have done nationwide for a decade.