Yes, there are HOA fees but you don't have to worry about any external maintenance. 

Additional things to check for are insulation is newer to help reduce the head load from the attic, additionally, depending on the age of the house, external insulation breaks down.

We plan to move back and buy property in Portland this winter, rehab and house-hack during the required FHA owner-occupant year, and possibly build a separate ADU in the basement (or external?)

Need some advice....I bought an apartment building in Ontario a while back, which had a large external garage. 

@Annetta Barnes Analyze the property by including all the external fees you will incur by doing OOS investing and paying others to support this place. 

On the other hand is it an overkill to spend $8000-$12000 on something that making external improvements could curb?

They're looking for a unicorn and potentially missing many other deals that would work for their needs, but because they're imposing some external criteria it must meet beforehand they don't even see them or skip right over them.Make sense?

Even if you spend 5 years just learning you will be in your early 20's, still externally young, and you will know more than most!

This restriction will just create unnecessary externalities that serve no one.Someone made the comment that the sharing economy is the wild west.

Hi John, I would recommend just treating them as an external contractor, this way you don't have to deal with payroll and taxes and the overhead that having an employee includes.