The only thing I can think of for not allowing or approving (section 8) is based on income, that has yet not hit the mainstream media of being discriminatory but nowadays moving more to a socialist path I can see in the future governing officials even pushing that into the law, and telling you how much rent to charge. let them come in and inspect the home, they find anything I revert back to my city inspections approving my property (As a Rental), I also revert back to no obligation to do any repairs to approve the voucher if I do not need or want to.

@Doug Smith which banks would you recommend for a HELOC nowadays?

Nowadays I'm seeing roughly 9-12% cost of capital when partnering with other individuals in the form of borrowing private money.

Do things like this become available nowadays?

Capital raise - media buzz 

Nowadays, I only tackle projects that require cosmetic work and/or simple remove and replace type of issues. 

Doing this kind of process nowadays demands that you split off the ADU into a separately supplied board.

I know Austin is the buzz and I am in the market here, but any new investment have me looking else where.  

I see buzz around Tesla , velocity , oracle close to DV but I doubt that would make a difference as higher salaried guys won’t live or buy in DV for a long long time 

Kinda sounds like one of those old antique Mo-bile gas stations on Route 66 that were the in thing when my Dad, Buzz, and his buddy, Mocks, were driven their Model T across the USA in the late '30's.