You would think the listing agents would look this stuff up prior to putting the house on the market, but sometimes they could have bad or old intel.  

It was a nightmare to try to charge tenants because so many just used excess water all of the time...like leaving the hose running overnight on a driveway. 

The only time I know of recently in the US when house prices dropped was about 15 years ago when banks had been lending money to people that should never have been given loans.

In this episode it talks about rental arbitraging many units in apartments and then being awarded government contracts where you house a large amount of government employees  and the government pays you well over market rent.

The FHA loan house hacking wouldn't work for me for at least a year due to me having a year left in college.

House Hack? 

I’ll give you that AI can drive machines that one day can build houses to some degree.  

Repair foundation, updated siding to front of the house, used medium to high end finishes, beautified the landscaping What was the outcome?

My wife and I have made several offers on multifamily houses recently but keep being beaten out by (lower) cash offers.

My preference is to actually have to separated as cost efficiently as possible, but also wouldnt mind the ADU and main house shared meters as this would save me costs on my initial construction.