If the delay is out of your hands (ie. waiting on parts), then provide multiple portable or window units to provide adequate AC as close to what a central unit would do.....

Use me ( HML ) to put you in title Curt rehabs your house LA investor refits pays me off and pulls cash out.. seemed like a good Idea at the time but the banks soon learned that was not a really good thing to do.Geoff investing in rentals is just common sense in the most part  they don't always go perfect.. so you need adequate reserves for that ut oh moment..

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Hi Chris,more and more I felt the reason why some investors are making money or losing money is because of the "asymetrical return and risk information".The more experienced investor like yourself has adequate understanding of risk.

@Jamall Lynch Planning for capex events is good once you have a property and want to keep adequate reserves to handle a large capex event.

I ask "do you mean your unit is not cooling adequately?" 

Be sure you are prepared for it by having adequate reserves.Part of me says that house-hacking when you don’t need to (because you could live with your parents longer)  seems a little weird… but if you are doing that to get the 3.5% down I guess I get it.  

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That is the "fun" part of the adu market, until there is enough data to adequately reflect the market's reaction.When I expand the search results to the Orcutt area, there is a sale of an sfr + adu, 1498 Claret Ln, sold for $1,165,000 on 3/7/24.And that's all there is using the mls with the newish search field for ADUs.

The numbers and business plan more than adequately support the project numbers (can share privately).