This is because the main house often includes value drivers that ADUs do not, such as larger living spaces and more comprehensive amenities.

Similarly, earnest money wasn’t included as part of the contract.The potential buyer’s suggestion to switch to his contract, which includes a fee to me, seems to be because he plans to sell the property to one of his investors.

First, the $316K w/study seems a little light, and I would interested to see some more details on what they included in their 5,7,15 year asset classes.

My suggestion is to build a spreadsheet and include the net cash flow to you for every month of the deal, then use the IRR function to figure out your return. 

You need to include how much it would cost you to live somewhere else in your figures.

Quote from @Efrain Flores: Quote from @Tim Delaney: Based on rent of $1500-1600 and mortgage payment of $1700-1800 which doesn’t even include maintenance, management or capex it doesn’t seem to make any sense to keep it as a rental.

Rookie question here - when you are talking about multi-family, are you generally talking about larger commercial buildings or also including small (2-4) unit properties in this analysis? 

Hello,  i've had couple SFHs in the great Savannah area, including Pooler, Richmond hill. 

This ranking includes reviews, photo, click, retention, policy, occupancy, price….

It could be the lack of screening skills.