Each month is a themed topic with the themes organized in a specific order...each month's theme building on the previous months.They have grown from around 20-25 members in 2008, to the 684 as of this writing.  

Though the commercial-real-estate sector has a reputation for being slow to embrace new technology, several brokers and developers are hot on virtual-reality tours—to boost leasing and sales, especially to technology firms and tech-driven media and advertising companies: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-office-space-in-your-head-1435541344

There are a lot of things to consider, especially since you will be sharing a living space.

families & couples ( with a pet) .. the way the units are laid out.. can be used as single big 6 bed house as well.. but what I dont know is how many would in the future want to share spaces like a backyard or a common area and yet have their own privacy in their own units 

Great price, next door to a commercial property we own that needs more parking spaces.

It's a term you might use after you've learned a lot and feel familiar in the space.

And that is, finding a property with a detached garage or a basement with a separate entrance/exit and converting that space into an additional dwelling unit (called an ADU) which I can either rent out short term on airbnb/vrbo or longer term.

Oh wow - could you also convert the detached into another living space? 

Originally, I was looking for a "house-hacking" situation with either a small home + attached living space (basement apartment, etc), or renting out rooms in a home I own and occupy. 

I have no facts to back this up, just a rumour that I saw on BP and elsewhere.Until there are some sustained movements showing a vacancy decrease in downtown commercial office space I wouldn't risk it, but that is just my tolerance level.