Hanging wall gardens (whether indoors or on a deck or patio) are increasingly practical in terms of maximizing space, and also incorporating the natural element that so many city-dwellers desire.

The park is full of trees, grass, a community garden, and a pet run.

Purchase price: $550,000 Cash invested: $40,000 Contributors: Mitchell England 16-Unit Class C, garden-style apartment building.

Investment Info:Single-family residence fix & flip investment in Miami Gardens.

We see this in Chicago more with basement/garden apartments.

Broadly, I’d say it ranges from 35-50% for properties in the western United States. 35% being a 2000 or newer, garden-style property with rent greater than $1,300/~$1.25sqft. 50% being older properties with small units and rents less than $1,000/~$1.25sqft.

This neighbor unknown to my mother, had built a chicken coop, play area, parks his vehicles on the lot, installed a garden and to top it off - built a wire fence around my Mom's lot!  

Now she is divorced and not so well-to-do, but likes playing the part of this sweet old lady living in a newly remodeled 3/2 house and a gardener.

We started a little garden & fenced it off.

Repurposing each floor into spacious home suites, with indoor gardens in each home, a restaurant on an entire floor, the rooftop with a pool and gym...capital heavy but if it can be streamlined into a science, maybe its new upscale housing fir the cost of a complete interior remodel vs building a stick frame on new land out farther away from the city.