Check local laws.I'm always on the lookout for ways to put up cheap workshops, art studios, guest cottages, etc, behind a stick built house.

Born from the depths of the real estate crash, a new force bringing together and orgainizing a cottage industry, joining forces to save the housing market!

Stuff still needs to be done, so the remaining owners who do pay are having to shoulder more of the burden.I suggest that you look at row houses out of a HOA, or a small cottage and pay for your own gardener.Personally, I would not buy a condo for a rental that I planned to retire in.

I think this concept is the way of the future - I have been following the Cottage Company for years and their influence on zoning in the Seattle area is catching on in many areas.

Bulk foods: some at Costco, mostly cheese, frozen foods, nuts, tea, plastic bags, coffee when they have a coupon.I buy from the bulk bins, but the store I like is 120 miles away.

The home rents for 600 month and the property actually has 19 small cottages/trailers along the river that people use as their seasonal homes.

What has happened to them was clearly defined in the book, "Who Moved My Cheese?

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As always buying right is the key, if you bought a $930,000 1200 sf 2bedr 1 1/2 bathroom cottage at Tamarack Resort in Dec. 2007 (at the top of the local market) you got buried as recent sales for the same units are at $250k range as banks clear them out--rental resort occupancy on those cottages has not been above 25 percent.

No government cheese for him, and he got his piece of the American dream.