Control everything but own nothing. 

In-house means more control—you’ll manage everything from printing and stuffing envelopes to postage.

Well, most of those OTAs have a bunch of premiere partners and still have plenty of limitations on what exactly can be controlled via API and whatnot, so that's not really saying a lot.Doubly worrisome is that there are almost no hands on reviews of Hostaway, and any time the name comes up on BP or Facebook groups there are suddenly a dozen new "users" whose first and only post ever is to talk about how great Hostaway is, without providing any details. 

They need to do all their due diligence including understanding the value that will be added by the ADU, the finance options available, the consequences of adding the ADU (rent control, property taxes, rental limitations, etc), etc.Good luck

You have a LOT more control of cash-flow than you do appreciation.

But this is precisely the reason I wanted to post this question--to get insights from people who with different experience and perspective.

There will always be some sense of resentment or issues that you leveraged control ect.

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You would have to create an HOA to manage the common area and keep control of that or create a self-managing HOA for the four owners to manage together.

If you buy a $100,000 home for cash, your $100,000 controls $100,000 in assets.