By the way, is this purchase for your primary residence or investment purposes?

background -- I own my primary residence free and clear.

The zoning is R2 allowing for 2 residences on the single lot so that shouldn't be a problem.Thanks for the info on the utilities.

The background of this house, just in case anyone is interested, is the previous resident was getting foreclosed on, so she gutted, and sold everything out of the house.

I live in the house as my primary residence.

I have been really struggling to get a good real estate agent, because most of them focus only on primary residence,and not too keen to handle deals that are under $150k.

. - for me, I just got a "resident manager" and traded free rent in exchange for him looking after the normal maintenance and other small tasks.

Michele Fischer Thanks for the welcome, glad to hear another WA resident on the route of multi-fam units.

If I were to find a quad with one empty unit, finance it with an FHA loan and keep at least one unit at a time as my residence on the weekends (probably just to do work on the place), would I be committing mortgage fraud?

Yet, he has not owned his personal residence and has not owned one since 1982.