With my time aka freedom, I'd get to attend those camp trip with my son's boys scouts.

Bought them as a way to have a side business for camaraderie with his son.  

I'll be purchasing a property in AZ next year to rent to my son and several of his friends when they start college and I may turn my vacation property into a rental as well.

Her sons want to sell me the house because they know my mother still lives 4 houses down and being close to family is important. they are willing to give me "first dibs" by talking to me about prices and options.The sellers: One brother is retired, lives in FL (the property is in CT), and is pretty much removed from the situation.

Look for #'s on trucks, look for plans laying around and get the name and # of the architect and engineer.

I knew another landlord that (through his son's rental company) found a 3-fam property, bought it for 1.2mil, sunk another 200k in renovations, and rented it for $14k per month.My word of caution however, is that you need to find a rental company and rental agent that's worth his/her salt.

I have been talking to various other Prefab companies and below is my analysis until now - a) Abodu - really nice adu, have a model that you can view in Redwood city. will cost around 230k all inclusive for under 500sf. 1b/1bab) Veev - pretty nice adu, have a model that you can view in East palo alto. will cost around 200k all inclusive for under 570sf, but 70sf is for covered deck, so essentially living space is around 500sf. 1b/1ba. good thing is they seem to be an established company and doing bunch of other construction projects in bay areac) Sonderpods - have not seen these yet, but i have been talking to them. their cost will be around 190k (doesnt include appliances cost) for 750sf, 2b/1ba.

My son and family are there also.

I have most of mine in a corporation so that it will be easier to pass along the ownership to my sons when I pass away.

I have sons on the tenant end of this arrangement and they have lived in towns where the illegal boarding house put in locks on bedroom doors or refused based on local fire regs.