What would you think of building new (using a "build on your lot" stick builder) a single-family home that had say 6 large bedrooms, each with their own bath, plus a large kitchen (possibly with multiple ovens and microwaves) and smaller communal living room area. 

What would you think of building new (using a "build on your lot" stick builder) a single-family home that had say 6 large bedrooms, each with their own bath, plus a large kitchen (possibly with multiple ovens and microwaves) and smaller communal living room area.

What would you think of building new (using a "build on your lot" stick builder) a single-family home that had say 6 large bedrooms, each with their own bath, plus a large kitchen (possibly with multiple ovens and microwaves) and smaller communal living room area.

Also Iowa is moving from an institutional model, into a community based services model (aka Going from huge building packed full of people, to 2 to 4 clients living in a regular SFH in the community.)I’m not trying to scare you, but if you’re looking to buy an old house that’s 4,000 sq ft, that’s zoned R-1 or similar, put up partitions, and rent it by the “room” with a communal bathroom or two for everyone.

(Once you scale to more units having to go empty the machines will be a waist of time too)Add an out door sitting area and communal grill if there is a common space for that. look at what the newer apartments have, make something similar. 

It is not a necessity and it involves communal leisure and other common areas that previously weren't noticed as a risky. 

We’ll let the operators manage the communal events as we only provide a platform.

In our one Avondale rental that we did just cosmetic re-hab (all others are complete gut) we left the existing communal laundry in the basement - and rented all units in less than a week in the middle of quarantine.

Or generally speaking, is it at the federal level (probably not), state level, or city/communal level?

I manage my own properties and have never used a property manager before, but the communal hatred of them on BP always surprises me a bit.