This is a home, if you want to make it communal go find a neighborhood that supports that.

@Luka Milicevic: Thanks for your feedback.We have seen some big houses here in SF that are still getting good rent by renting to tech working professionals (singles), like communal living.

Communal Hallways and Elevators) are not seeing the appreciation that is occurring nationwide.

Another way I have increased my cash flow on a property is renting out by the room, where 2 or potentially 3 tenants live communally in one apartment.

I stayed and it was simply amazing, great communal industrial kitchen, fireplace.

A “duplex” could take many different forms in the dmv, from a not-totally-seperate basement so as not to violate the letter of the law, to an ADU that’s sort of a duplex though not separately metered, to a true two unit multi family home.In Woodbridge at the 350k price point you can buy a detached home and rent out the basement and live upstairs or vice versa, and you can put it a second kitchen under certain circumstances, or house hack with roommates if you’re open to sharing communal space.Prince William County has specific rules on finishing basements: https://www.pwcgov.org/governm...There are also rules about number of unrelated people living in one home, though I don’t think it’s enforced much in Woodbridge if you’re not causing problems:https://www.pwcgov.org/governm...

Does that change zoning from communal living with seperate bedrooms to full on studio suites?  

Sometimes they have to lock up communal spaces or required to do rounds of the property.

Cover things like quiet hours, cleaning of communal spaces, overnight guests and how disputes will be handled.

Provide more modern amenities . . . larger communal kitchen, we/work style coworking space, laundry on site, pickleball courts, gym, etc, etc.