That means YES, they are actually with people sitting down and scrolling through new listings every day looking for people to tag.

I've been in Austin since 1992 and it's an awesome city to live and work.

@Christopher Reynolds My mantra has always been, "Live where you want to live; invest where it makes sense."

The local who lives there but commutes 30-60 min to another community because they can’t find a job to support their family in their town.That same local knows that a 4plex would be great on that lot that’s been vacant for 20 years and that there are at least 4 families who could benefit greatly from that development.That local knows that Ryan’s plumbing and Katie’s electrical companies that service 75% of the town really needs a new flex space to use as a shop, storage, and parking for their business so that they aren’t working out of their garage and can hire a couple of locals to work with them at the office and in the field.Development is different in our small towns but if locals aren’t the ones doing it, and developers aren’t coming, what happens to our kids futures?

How likely is it she will spend her entire life living in your garage apartment? 

At that point the unit becomes no longer tenable to rent from an owner perspective as it is actually COSTING me money to have someone live there.

(I actually didn't get my laptop/phone hooked up to it, because I live here.

The current owner lives there and had someone paying to a trailer in the back yard all the way in the back. 

I live in California but am looking to invest in Texas, Alabama.  

Even if the rental has a decent cash flow with additional flood insurance, we're still not sure we want to take on that risk as we are out-of-state investors (planning to move back to KY in the future, but not now) and we don't like that it will potentially bring down the perceived value when we try to sell it in the future.The seller has never lived there and has not provided any information on if it has flooded before or not.