I'm about 6 months from doing my first deal and leaning towards buying a condo cottage vacation rental property.  

It was a "contemporary cottage" concept house.  

I'm looking for information regarding existing companies that specialize in Accessory Dwelling Units in the Southern California area. I am a general and manufactured home contractor, real estate broker and developer l...

I don't see a need to change anything but to the point of it being a legal 3 family... my understanding is that it is a legal 2 family with a sfr ("Cottage") on the same parcel.

Another is four small cottages on the same parcel.

I've heard various opinions about how difficult it is to schedule both without some degree of conflict and/or confusion and found some very interesting opinions, attitudes and philosophies about this cottage industry that just seems to be getting bigger, better and more successful by the year.I do realize that there are a lot of municipalities and neighborhoods protected by HOA's and CC&R's who are resisting this movement in much the same manner that taxi drivers are resisting UBER and LYFT, however, it doesn't seem to be slowing it down let alone stopping it.I understand and empathize with this dilemma inasmuch as it does pose certain problems and tends to disturb the status-quo of otherwise quiet residential family communities and that has to be addressed and dealt with.However, in destination tourist and vacation communities it's a train that's already left the station and there's no turning back albeit there will be a price to pay in the way of Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) on the rack rates for this type of rental activity.

Here's the top 5 I'd recommend: (in no particular order)Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson (deals with change)How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie (One of the best sales books)Secrets of Closing the Sale - Zig Ziglar (Another top sales book)Guerilla Marketing - Jay Conrad Levinson (One of the best marketing books)Platform - Michael Hyatt (About how to use social media)

And could even raise bees (sell the very expensive honey), goats (goat cheese and goat milk are HOT items right now.

We pre-ordered some wine and a cheese tray so we are asking everyone to contribute $15 if they would like to consume the treats.

Thinking about building a house and mother in law cottage and a metal building "shop" where we can stay in our rv while renting out the house and cottage.