Gradually raising rents, exploring lease buyouts, or selling with tenants in place are balanced alternatives.

Sell more, especially builds from pre 20002.

If not I’d looking to sell.

In normal times i would think selling is typically the smarter financial choice, but at the current time keeping may have a significant finance (due to low interest rate) advantage.Here is a list of why adding ADUs in my CA market is typically a poor RE investment:1) The value added by the ADU addition is often significantly less than the cost of adding the ADU.

When I buy a property it is usually from someone who Really, Really needs to sell.

You had me run two appraisals that both came back good but because the rates were changing at the time you weren't certain you could sell it on the backend(this came directly from your agent, who happens to be a decent guy).

Or you have off-market deals you want to sell to them?

Your wife as conservator/guardian has an obligation to her mother and selling the property to herself creates a conflict of interest in that she stands to benefit as the buyer and is also making decisions for someone else as the seller.2.

It's hard to harvest equity on these plays, unless you commit, long-term, towards very light leverage, as the only practical ways to benefit from the equity in your portfolio, if you plan to never sell it, only exchange it, for a lifetime, are to spend the cash flow, or cash out refi.

The owner has taken it off market and I'm just trying to explore my options of selling it off market for a deeply discounted price.