If that does not work for you we can get together separately and then see what we can schedule.Just let me know.Phil 

Sometimes you can tell by noticing little gaps or separations at stairs, baseboard trim, door framing etc

I don't think that the owner has separate bank accounts for the tenant.

Preferably, units would have separate meters for utilities to be paid by each tenant. 

I think it might be because long term leases are separately assessed and have to pay ad valorem taxes, but easements do not, in Alabama.

Purchase price: $44,000 Cash invested: $50,000 Converting a 4/2 into a duplex (2/1 each side)Medium rehab, most challenging aspect is separating the utilities, should rent $750-800 per side.

This would allow us to continue saving money (more than if we bought separately) and get into this market while our home hopefully appreciates with inflation. 

I recently completed a project where we purchased a 4-plex in Los Angeles, did a major renovation and then sold the units individually to separate buyers who purchased as Tenants in Common (TIC).

We spent 15k and transformed the basement into a separate mother-in-law apartment, and have renters living there.

Forgetting about the ADU (a separate structure on the back yard), if I chose to make the garage into a bedroom suite with a bathroom and its own entrance, it would make the home into a 4/3.