I’m in an area with a serious deficit of housing and it’s still taking me at least 3 weeks to secure a good tenant.

How can we tell if the increase in house size done legally as there is HOA governing for this location? 

Not able to buy in this area without going house poor.

If you buy a house, you have to care for it.

the midwest has lower price points than other areas of the US, sure, but it also comes with its own challenges - for example, very old housing stock, lots of deferred maintenance, and tremendous demand for the best properties."

This will be my first pure investment purchase, my experience up to now has involved house hacking.

The thing to remember also is that I buy super duper priced houses.

Illegals require housing.

If the house is older than 15 years old and an ADU is added, it can become rent controlled.

It is presumed that "Multifamily" housing will have multiple families inside.