Maybe he doesn’t want to be an accessory to negligent homicide. 

Accessory Dwelling Unit.

I am currently building at Detached Accessory Dwelling unit (DADU) behind a property I am about to rent.

I'm looking at investing in the North Bay, and the numbers work (on paper) by adding an Accessory Dwelling Unit.

Removing doubt from the process of adding or legalizing an accessory dwelling unit.adu bay area.

Primarily, allowing home buyers to include rental income from accessory dwelling units during the mortgage underwriting process and reducing the MIP on FHA-insured mortgages — which saves borrowers up to $800 a year — the agency said.Julia Gordon, the assistant secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner also said that they were looking at changes with 203k loans, which are government loans that are more commonly known as a rehab or a renovation loan.

ADU’s are accessories to the primary home and due to the limited number of comps, since adu’s are typically build and holds, there’s not much to compare it to which would leave appraisers little to go off of in terms of determining value. 

I am leaning towards converting an existing freestanding accessory dwelling by expanding it into an ADU, it already has electricity, water, sewer (other option is a detached garage).

An ADU is considered an accessory structure.

Definition of limited cash out refinance by Fannie Mae: Client is not required to take any cash out but the maximum they can take out is the lessor of 1% of the loan amount or $2,000.Accessory Dwelling Units: Fannie Mae does not currently allow for the use of ADU’s on 2-4 units.