House hacking is a great idea, and there are several variations on the theme.

There are plenty of option and variations you can do.  

NO the Zestimate has a 80% accuracy when accounting for a 20% variation. 

I like pre-1986 homes.I like areas like Ballard, Wallingford, Queen Anne, Tacoma, and Everett where there are price variations.

I was thinking of turning my garage into an ADU for variation of a house hack but Im uncertain of it since its kind of a newer area for me.

There are a few items on your tax return that could call for income recalculations IF not revealed at time of application: lower allowed self-employment income, lower allowed rental income, unreimbursed employee business expenses, alimony, dividend and interest income, wide variations in commission/bonus income from prior years.You have a nonstandard transaction that a nonportfolio lender would carefully scrutinize.

I have helped a great deal of clients succesfully pull off variations of the house-hacking strategy, so I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.  

I think we all have an idea of what it should be, but every market can have multiple different companies with their own variation of a Turn-Key investment.Jon Holdman I think I recall when i wrote that forum post, you were definitely commenting and in the same manner as on this post.

I personally like to keep my assets involved with a variation of markets that I'm familiar with.  

This is good because there will be variation if both the power generated (summer is more than winter) as well as power used (typically AC is large electricity user and typically at worse in Aug and Septempber (but not so much this year)).My point is that I suspect the lease will not be as bad as you have calculated.