One of the big reasons was watching the collapse of Greece from here in the USA.

Second, I arrive home from that meeting to find a herd of nine deer  hanging out in my yard--reminding me that I'm in a prime location with easy access to the outdoors, great neighbours, and 10 minutes from work. 

You can make money until a bad tenant or disgruntled neighbour reports you to your building department or there is a fire and someone gets injured, killed or you try to make an insurance claim.

Interesting to see what the neighbours and building inspectors think of your plans.

I was in Greece in 2006, and everyone else on that packed bus, maybe a hundred and fifty people, all had better things to do and jumped off that bus before the cops came.

Step one is to connect with your neighbour and see if he will mentor you for the next 6 months to a year to learn some basics on investing in income properties. 95% of new real estate investors/businesses fail in the first 5 years.

The story they said was they never received the mail and that its possible that their neighbour stole their mail.

If you have an attached garage, you can put it on the side of the house facing the busy road on the bottom to increase your privacy...and decrease any road noise through the outside wall.I'd probably do the same as the neighbour pushing the house as far away from the roads as possible, but offset your house a bit (put it a bit closer to the road on the right). 

Our economic reality is that the majority of Americans have no savings and only put aside a very small fraction of their paycheck in the belief that nothing really bad could possibly happen to them, that stability is an integral part of the society they live in.My own life experience has been that things can change drastically very, very quickly.A large part of that has been watching economic developments in the country of my birth, Greece, where I lived for seven years from 2000-2007 as an adult and got my start in residential renovation, From 2008 to the present day, I have watched the country transform into a begging pauper-state wholly in thrall to its financial overlords.

IF they provide a survey that is meaningfully different from the others, you will either have to take it to court or come to an agreement with your neighbours t needs to be papered and registered with whoever is the local land registry authority is.Oren