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Jamal Khadar, a married father of 4, would give his children the world if he may.
In today’s economic system, he virtually is by spending $200,000 to construct his eldest daughters, Jameelah, 27, and Hameedah, 26, personalized flats in his 2,600-square-foot home in Potomac, Maryland, to help them keep away from paying 1000’s on NYC rent.
It was a dear, yet no-brainer resolution that the doting dad, who’s the proprietor of Khatraco LLC, a construction company, got here to this summer time, after studying Jameelah had been paying $2,200 a month for a flex, three-bedroom condominium in Cobble Hill, and Hameedah was forking over $2,800 for a studio in downtown Brooklyn.
Sisters Jameelah and Hameedah (left and middle), Khadar, left their NYC flats to return home with their youthful siblings and mother and father, when dad Jamal supplied to construct them customized flats. Khadar Family
“The choice was obvious for me,” Jamal, 61, proudly told The Post. “I’ve always wanted my daughters to move back home.”
He launched the home renovation-turned “passion project” in July, first remodeling his basement into Jameelah’s personal palace.
“I updated the lower level of our home from an unfinished basement to a 1,100 square-foot one-bedroom apartment,” said Jamal, “fully ensuite with a full bathroom with heated floors, a media room (a six-seat movie theater), gym, wet bar and recreation room.”
Jameelah, a lover of inside design, cherry-picked the marble tiles, wooden finishes and superb furnishings for her lair.
In exchange for dumping her metropolis residency, Hameedah will get her own personal wing of the household home, courtesy of pricey previous dad.
“It’s a 600 square foot studio fully ensuite with a kitchenette,” Jamal explained. He’s decking out the digs with a swanky toilet, bed room, closet and lounge space, too.
After years of begging his oldest daughters to go away New York City and transfer back home to Maryland, Jamal formally started transforming his home for the ladies this summer time. @dailymoons/TikTok
“We’re also doing a 440 square-foot two-car garage for the girls,” bragged the professional builder, who’s fortunately spent “all my free time during the evenings and weekends” redesigning his abode for the oldest of his brood.
“The house was 2,600 square feet before we started all this,” said Jamal, “and now it’s about 4,500.”
With the project underway, Hameedah resides in her childhood bed room until the new condominium is full, most seemingly by early 2026. “Not having to pay rent or electricity has been amazing.”
Bunking up with mother and dad to save a few bucks is what millennials and Gen Zers, like his ladies, do best.
Jamal, initially from Sierra Leone, tells The Post that he’s pleased to sacrifice his time and money for the sake of his youngsters. Khadar Family
With the fee of residing in the US at a fever pitch — seeing the average Big Apple rent exceed $4,600 per month — a whopping 1.5 million more adults under age 35 are residing with their mother and father in contrast to a decade in the past, per current stories.
The soft setup is perhaps supreme for these younger adults, but not for their mother and father’ funds, according to a Thrivent examine.
Researchers discovered that 38% of mother and father with grownup youngsters at home have seen their retirement financial savings take a hit, while 39% say it’s affected their means to save for near-term targets like journey, home repairs or paying for health care.
Hameedah, however, tells The Post that their dad and mother, Kattie, see her and Jameelah’s return to the nest as a blessing fairly than a burden.
Jameelah tells The Post she was intently concerned with the general look of her home’s basement condominium, which is saving her 1000’s in rent money. @dailymoons/TikTok
“I moved to New York right after college, and ever since they’ve been begging us to move back home,” laughed Hameedah, a tech engineer, who’s lived in the concrete jungle for the past two years, while her sister, Jameelah, who’s in pharmaceutical advertising, called Gotham home for the last 4 years.
And just like that, the sisters formally left the boroughs this fall.
Jamal constructed Jameelah’s toilet with marble tiling, heated flooring and a specialised bathe. Khadar Family
“It’s not necessary for me to be in the city,” said Jameelah, who works as a distant advert professional. “I decided to make an adult decision and really think about my future.”
“And if I have the option to save money, I might as well just take advantage of it.”
The money she’s stashed since transferring home in September — just under $10,000 — has given Jameelah full financial freedom.
Jamal tells The Post that the $200,000 home renovation is a small sacrifice to make for his loving daughters. Khadar Family
“It’s great not having to pay rent. I have so much disposable income,” she gushed. “I can travel, prioritize myself and really enjoy my 20s without having that heavy responsibility.”
Hameedah, who also works from home, agrees.
“I love to travel, and I was coming home from the city every two weeks, and it didn’t make sense to keep paying rent when I’m [almost never in my apartment],” said Hameedah.
It’s an expansive, costly improve that youngest daughter, Memounah, 23 — a current graduate of Boston University, who moved home after school — has chronicled online, sharing visuals of the revamp with over 465,000 shocked social media viewers.
“A lot of people really resonated with the content, some were commenting, ‘Hey, maybe I should move home, ’” Memounah told The Post. “And that’s been the most beautiful part of sharing our family’s story with the internet — inspiring others.”
For now, the three sisters, as properly as youthful brother Yousuf, 18 — who all contribute to the family’s wants and maintenance — are each squirreling away parts of their respective funds to buy properties of their own sometime.
“We’re so grateful to our parents for giving us this opportunity to live at home and save money,” said Jameelah. “We would have been fine living in New York and paying high rent, but our parents want better for us.”
“And we want more for ourselves in the future.”
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