Due to item 1, adding an ADU can require years to start achieving any return (once the accumulated cash flow recovers the initial negative position).4) Adding an ADU is a slow process.

An experienced agent would be able to guide you in the negotiation process much more insight-fully than the forums.  

The education process starts at the very beginning.

What is the standard process from start to finish so we can eliminate as much risk as possible?

Then they complain that our process takes too long!

Then you restart this process with your spouse's credit lol.This path is hard, but doable.

There is a company called Fund & Grow and they help you navigate this process and get between $50,000-$250,000 in combined business credit lines.

Not only that, but it is unoccupied and subject to any number of things happening to it while it is unoccupied simply put, it just does not seem worth it to try to haggle over a raise like this. however, if you are in a high demand area with your property, and you know that it has a lot of value, you could post an ad to try to get some feelers out for occupancy and if you find something better, as far as quality and price for the occupant, then you can consider the lengthy eviction process, but again you're doing all of this for about $200 extra and none of it seems worth it.

The process involves deeding the property to a land trust and then assigning the beneficial interest of the trust to an LLC for asset protection purposes.2.

Re-titling real estate can get expensive with the misc. transactional fees associated with the process + you are at risk of the lender triggering the due on sale clause if you don't plan on refinancing the real estate.