@Clara Cheng, to my knowledge, it's highly unlikely that there is a way to file a change to permit co-living properties in Cobb County. 

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!

I would work with an agent who has investments of their own because not all agents are knowledgeable in that realm. 

Feel free to shoot me a DM! 

If you ever have any questions feel free to reach out. 

Another area of knowledge we would greatly value is general guidance on how we are looking at this problem, and if we are approaching this the right way.

I'm also soaking up knowledge from YouTube videos, but there's nothing like real-world tips.Thanks in advance for your support! 

Option 1 will require experience and is just there for illustrative purposes, 2 and 3 (in the absence of experience owning CRE) will require that the borrower be local to the property (if you want the best financing available on your first rodeo, stay local and stay turnkey, your lack of CRE experience is offset by your presumed local neighborhood level knowledge, etc, you can get fancy & still get good financing once you've got local & turnkey property #1 under your belt).

Unfortunately I do not think there are any free resources. 

Hey Jason, Feel free to reach out!