An accessory dwelling unit is a secondary, self-contained living unit on the same lot as a primary home, a detached backyard cottage, a converted garage, a basement apartment, or an attached in-law suite.
Log in to followI've been circling the service side of this for a while and finally sold something concrete: a pre-design feasibility screen for owners thinking about a backyard unit. Flat $850,…
Our county rewrote its ADU rules last spring and the new text is 26 pages. I read it because I was curious, and then I made a two page plain summary: what sizes are allowed by lot…
Passive position, $150k into a small fund building detached ADUs in a permissive metro and selling them to homeowners as a turnkey product financed by the homeowner. Two year proj…
I've spent about a year trying to work out which strategy actually fits, and building a backyard cottage kept failing the same test for me: I don't have $180k and I don't have the…
Detached 480 sf one bedroom, prefab shell set on a slab in my backyard, finished last fall. Renting at $1,595. Total spend $131,400 including site work, utility runs, permits, and…
Two adjacent infill lots in a first-ring suburb, bought in 2021 at $71k and $78k. The thesis was that the state was moving on ADU-enabling legislation and the city would follow, a…
Bought a house with an existing permitted detached ADU, 560 sf, already leased at $1,725. Asking was $612k, closed at $571k, and the discount came out of a document the listing di…
Under contract on a 1,900 sf single family with a detached garage I planned to convert. My underwriting had the converted garage at $1,650 a month based on three comps in the neig…