It also may reduce your marketing or your niche area so you can have your action area within an hour drive to respond to calls for emergencies or regular maintenance.

With the COVID scare, stock market crashing a bit (for any savvy long term investor, who cares, but regular folk get scared any time they see red), election causing uncertainly, it is inevitable that people will look to sell their extra property, and also likely scare away half the buyers.

Substantial services are those that are primarily for your tenant’s convenience, such as regular cleaning, changing linen, or maid service.

I have a colleague in LA who flips SFR's in the $800k-1mill range (with ADU's and they have never came in under valueFHA loan guidlelines do not give detached ADU's value.Though ADUs produce income, lenders cannot use the income to assist with approval as they can rents for a duplex.

(Source: Investopedia).As a former banker, we did these type of loans on a regular and routine basis.

Will she have to go through a regular eviction process?

In my regular market if I needed a new housekeeper I would have my choice because I have multiple properties and my properties keep my cleaners business than any other host.

@Jeffrey Long the special assessments is a concern for sure, but if each is producing I will be prepared for it.

I don't know about a regular citizen but as a licensed broker and property manager the state of Ohio requires us to keep all tenant security deposits in a non interest bearing trust account.

I found it on MLS after checking it regularly for weeks.