What's your motivation to get into real estate investing? 

I can certainly tell you in SoCal if you had a single family home with an ADU that generates an extra $2k per month in income, end-user buyers will not be thinking "I'd pay an extra $20k for that." 

In many markets section 8 is higher than market rate. and investors need that extra return to mitigate the risk of sec 8 tenants generally speaking.

Motivates tenants to conserve and not waste water.

I'm extra cautious when analyzing a deal like this, but a lot of them end up being great.For interest-only financing, negotiating some principal paydown is a good idea.

Steve if you can go without buidling the extra garage below the ADU it will save a lot of money. if you can get two studios it will do much better than one ADU.

They'll have the same issue with the next buyer and you can always come back in a few months and make them a much lower offer once the property has fallen out of contract a few times and they are extra motivated to sell.   

It's easy to obtain, costs very little, and doesn't require extra, on-going effort to maintain. 

So permits are not relevant to the subject of this thread for my jurisdictionNot sure if there are jurisdictions that require permits for cabinets or counters but if there is, I suspect the motivation is the fees collected for the permits.So permits SHOULD be irrelevant on this thread.best wishes

I can't imagine how much extra time is spent without having automation.