I strongly encourage you to investigate a few!

@Philip GephardtThey is a great, encouraging post.Any words of wisdom for a new REI who wants to follow a similar path?

Unless you want to use it to encourage yourself to keep buying real estate, you could just pay the gains.

@AJ Shepard Thank you very much for detailed explanation and encouragement and advice.

Local jurisdictions tend to be very friendly towards mother in law units or ADUs  nowadays because they either want to encourage infill or because of the lack of affordable housing, or both.

@Marlen WeberMarlen, thanks so much for the response and encouragement.

That was encouraging.

:DThanks for the encouragement....

@Tanner Sherman Thank you for your encouragement and advice!

They are saving me money by reporting a small leak, why penalize them and encourage them to keep quiet.