My main plan to use real estate for is to eventually generate passive income.

The purpose of owning real estate is to have the value go up over time, not to 0.

Or invest in the area for the same purpose?

At the end of the day, the purpose here was to share back 2 additional addresses this Justin Nguyen is now using and sharing in hopes this helps others not get scammed!

In your case, you might have to finish the main units before applying for the ADU. 

I was fitting this into an awkward schedule.The Facebook group was welcoming and fun to lurk and read posts, getting a feel for the community.Contracts in the document library were great – but overwhelming (you’ll see this phrase a lot)This was a main value for me – hiring lawyers to write contracts without knowing potential pitfalls or where I could/could not protect myself was a major concern.These contracts are worth the price of admission and only available w/in community.These contracts cover Joint Ventures (JVs) between parties, Creative Deals and non-creative deals, WRAPs, RVs, Automobiles, Leas Options, Wholesale Assignments, Hybrid docs and more.I haven’t actually gone through all of them yet.Tens of Thousands of dollars have been spent refining these contracts and just having access to this library was worth the price.

I rather buy one of each and keep them separate.If I want to own in Costa Rica for lifestyle purposes, I'd want to have my own property.

Who knows that you Jon Krauser, living at 123 Main Street became motivated?

@Andrew Montgomery - If you're goal is get to 10 properties in 3 years you'll need to figure out how to "recycle" your money that you invest in real estate, mainly by either BRRRRing single families or doing something similar with multifamily.

So there is no single projected return, no single actual return, no single experience (and it instead is a huge variety).I feel one of the main advantages of passive investments (via syndication/crowdfunding) is that I can hire a manager who has years more experience than I can ever hope to obtain myself.