We transformed a typical 1950's split level ranch into what we like to call a 'Farmhouse Cottage'. 

Very cottage-y too. 

I would say Eden Prairie is an A location and Cottage Grove is a B.

The most obvious items listing agents are supposed to disclose are "adverse material facts," such as the roof is Swiss cheese or the house sits on a sinkhole.But what is required and what agents should do can be a very different thing.

Or use it to improve your current property to generate rental income immediately with a MIL or backyard cottage.

What the city has a problem with is an investor purchasing the property renting out the main house and also doing a short term rental in the onsite cottage or other swelling.

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etc).If you have $X to spend on a house, you might get a bigger one on the Avenue versus a small cottage in Ojai, but do the math to see how much of the mortgage your future renters would cover, and take the "value" of where you want to live into consideration.Good luck!

For marketing solely to investors - do a search of the county records to see who the big cheeses are that own similar properties that you are trying to market.

8 months ago I purchased a cottage for my daughter to live in with her pitbull (sweety) while she started a new job three hours away- no apartments would take a pitty.