So My plan was/is to buy a single family house in a nice but inexpensive neighborhood that I used to live in, however my mother in law ( who is a real estate agent) asked me today why don’t I think about buying the vacant lots in my neighborhood instead.

The home has an attached mother in law suite with a septate entrance that can be used as a stand alone 1 bedroom rental.

We bought it for his mother, which rent basically covers the mortgage.

I was curious if anyone has had issues owning a rental property that has a mother-in-law unit in the basement. with not having sufficient parking or the neighbors calling the city to say there were multiple renters. 

After all, her family had owned her apartment for forty-some years, since the building was built, as my family had as well.I ended up living with her for eighteen months, with my mother right next door, and if things had gone differently we would be married today.

I am in the suburbs just north of Chicago.The goal is to get into a 3 flat .At the end of the month I am closing on my first home which I am buying from my mother in law.

I worked with two agents actually, My mother and my cousin.

My Mother and I have partnered to create an LLC to begin our real estate portfolio that we intend to slowly scale. 

Being a close knit Family, the plan is for each of us to find a nice out of state property in a region where you can find a furnished basement or even an ADU/Mother in law suite for them to live with one of us (or each of us 6 months) but also have some privacy as they are nearing retirement.I just visited Nashville, TN and fell in love with some nice big properties 15 minutes outside of downtown with 4500+ sq feet and nice lots that would be perfect for this.

.-- SebastienPS: I also have some ideas on how to improve the community situation which I put below, I don't pretend to have all solutions, let me know if you think some ideas below are worthy of consideration.The city should offer help and advice and counseling to all new mothers (family planning) and people in real difficulty, eviction or homelessness is a very real difficulty, so is domestic violence.