.* The studio should be legally permitted as part of the main gross living area (gla), If it isn't, it will most likely be valued as an accessory structure (studio), even if it is contiguous and the same condition/quality as the main gla.

Purchase price: $380,000 Cash invested: $50,000 Sale price: $505,000 I purchased this property and expediently made the necessary repairs to list it as the least expensive home for sale in the highly coveted neighborhood, in the past two years.

Does anyone have any research on how much ROI an accessory dwelling unit brings to the property?

Accessory Dwelling Unit

Meeting the requirement not to remove existing parking but also removing the garage from the 60% accessory limit.

He views them both as a hobby, accessory and investment.

Some lenders does  accessory unit. 

Renting rooms is quite common in the Bay Area.In addition, here is some info for you if you’d like to read up on the ADU rules and assembly bill 68 which will capture the guidelines to build accessory dwelling units.  

Anticipated rents for the ADU are  2700-3000/month which gets close to the coveted "1%" rule. 

I thought it was literally enough to get a license to get access to all inventory state-wide with no brokerages involved (thought there was some magical online portal or something that I can access myself from home to the coveted access to MLS) - good to know I'm as mistaken as a newbie can be.At any rate, thanks for the explanation, I'm now definitely not planning to get a license soon.