When you specifically mentioned STR experience and the possibility of something with some added "personal value" bells started going off. 

We moved plumbing, adding electrical, and added new appliances in the kitchen. 

Low and behold, now they want us to put down another $40,000; the seller wants another $5,000 added to EM and seller's agent wants their commission of $4,000.Do the math: 190,000 + 15,000 + 25,000 + 4,000 + 4,000 (our agent) + 40,000 = $278,000 for a fixer upper.

Eliminate debt, establish a budget, and save.

Here is a list of why adding ADUs in my CA market is typically a poor RE investment:1) The value added by the ADU addition is often significantly less than the cost of adding the ADU.

There is Intel headquarters, Amazon, FB, Honda, Amazon, Nationwide, and recently Anduril is adding another 4k jobs to Columbus!

Write a book about it, utilize paid internet ads to drive book sales, follow on with YouTube videos, webinars, blog casts, on line tutorials, and sell a few one on one coaching sessions.4.

This eliminates the problem of increasing your debt and damaging your credit score.

So she took that extra space, added a wall and a hidden door and poof!

Other things such as adding bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage justifying permits.