Hi Brandon,Personally I think it all depends on what kind of "avatar" you are.If you have high risk tolerance and have time to spend, active strategies like flips and BRRRRs will yield better returns and more opportunities. 

The average person thinks about a dollar and how they can spend it.

There’s a lot of valuable information out there without spending thousands of dollars.

I'm going to get a survey regardless, but I'd like to line all this up before I start spending on soft costs.The weird thing is I see other investors doing these DADU deals and I've never heard anything mention the above requirements / scenario. 

Where do you want to spend your cash, give it to UNCLE SAM or put it into rehabbing property.

If that is what was meant, spend a couple minuets and think about putting some ethics into your work flow.

You can spend as little as $100 to form an LLC, or you could use an attorney and spend $1,000 or more.

query=garage#sear...If you can rent a 2 garage at $450 without spending ~$150k for a garage ADU conversion, no work/risk of the ADU conversion, the lower maintenance/capex, easier eviction, no rent control, less tenant interaction, it will not convert your SFR to rent control, etc, it seems superior to the garage ADU conversion.  

Prior to investing, you should be spending a lot of time with discovery.

Then don't rehab for zero COC return.But if you can spend $3000 on the lite rehab and increase rent from $1000 to $1050 then you'd gain $50 per month.50 x 12 = $600 more annually because you rehabbed.600 / 3000 = .2 or a 20% cash on cash return!