The equity is actually what you are paying for the property.In this case let's look at the numbers that count,...the current numbers.You have about $500k or more in equity, which is buying you a property that's worth about $700k (I went with the lower PV. 

The average commission in other developed countries is actually very similar to that of the US: https://tranio.com/articles/real_estate_agents_commissions_i... 

We actually just had several go in on Livingston ave on the west side where I'd not normally think would be desirable, but they look great and really brought the block up.So I'm a huge fan personally from seeing them go up in my own area.  

However if you are looking at commercial properties a lot of them will be owned by corps and then it will still be hard to find the actual owners!

It's a fairly unregulated space (charging grandma $750 to puts around for 3 hours, after moving the old box from the horizontal sensor, which was the only problem with the garage door to begin with), so some combination of carefully reading reviews (you have to actually read them to make sure it's not 200 fake reviews), and maybe not giving them the full contract all at once, is in order. 

This is to prevent actual spammers from blasting our PM system.I've lifted your ban.

Are you actually building the ADU or contracting out? 

They are probably the only courses I actually have used after graduation.

Do these messages disclose that you aren't speaking with the actual owner if you aren't? 

@Bryan Maddex isn't it such a funny paradox that you actually benefit if the market goes down while you have your loan.