Live in the ADU and rent the main house!
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Can I ask how large is your yard? These renderings donāt look very realistic, with each one seemingly in a spacious yard out in the suburbs somewhere; it would be better to see them as they would actually be in a smaller space with requisite utilities, ingress/egress to the lot, parking, etc.
Iāve thought about asking my neighbor if I can buy a portion of their backyard - they never ever use it. I could see this being a win-win in older/mixed neighborhoods where younger, more ambitious folks live next to aging residents that donāt want yard work.
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50āx200ā so not small but I was trying to optimize car access while leaving the flaglot as a potential option open in the future.
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Wish they would have included something more customizable. No affiliation with this company, but I have been taking a look into putting one of these prefab homes as an adu - https://www.studio-shed.com/. The Summit series has a huge range of sizes and customizations
Well, the purpose of the Fast Track program is to have pre-vetted plans, and if theyāre customizable they canāt be pre-vetted. Youāre always welcome to work with other architects on an ADU, but approvals might take a bit longer.
#1 Problem (risk) with ADUsā¦& housing in general for the City
This assholeā¦
This sucks, but itās also just the problem with renting in general. If you run a quick search on apartments.com, youāll find plenty of houses that are for rent by a private entity or individual. Whether itās an ADU or a regular-sized house really isnāt going to make much of a difference: a crappy landlord is a crappy landlord, and, unfortunately, thereās a lot of them out there.
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This guy owns 100-130 properties ITBā¦,ā¦all of them are POS. He rents to drug dealers, ex-consā¦all of the people who canāt complain because nobody will rent to them. I know. I have property near him & so do several other friends. He is the type of person who will put up a plywood barn in the backyard & call it an āADUā & just pack more of this type on his property.
The city was going to shut him down completely years ago until the GOP took over the legislature & neutered a cityās ability to clamp down on landlords like him.
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I also used to own a property in a neighborhood where he and his family owned many of the SFH properties. His were some of the least maintained and āfrankensteinedā with unpermitted additions. Heās the straight up definition of a slumlord taking advantage of people who have limited options.
A quick Google search reveals many local news stories going back several years about him that are similar to this one.
I mean fair, but again, thatās not an ADU-exclusive thing. Youāve clearly made that point: heās doing it with regular houses. If he builds, heās going to have to go through permitting and inspections and the like. The new ADU would need to be up to code. I donāt envision this guy wanting to invest his resources into new structures, and there are hardly any preexisting ADUs available for him to purchase.
I guess I just donāt see what youāre trying to get at or why you think allowing new ADU structures is going to make this problem any worse.
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I agree with you on this. Slumlords clearly donāt care about following any rules or common decency. That guy has had obviously unpermitted structures and additions on many of his properties since well before ADUs were a thing. His tenants are typically vulnerable and Iām guessing many donāt want to rock the boat, so they donāt report.
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So now that itās easier to comply with the rules, the people that flout the rules are going to flout them even harder?
Letās get back on track here
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That looks pretty sizable, unless it includes a garage under it for the main residence.
Question: can ADUs in Raleigh be sold individually, or are they tied to the main residence unless the owner subdivides the lot?
How does this work in other cities? Saw this 650k ADU in Austin, for example, and am wondering how thatās still considered an ADU.
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We saw this a couple nights ago walking. I think this is on a city owned lot they are sticking spec homes on for income adjusted tenants.
Crazy what was there in 1996:
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This sounds like a dream! Have a small, efficient home to live in and then a giant man cave!!!
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Wonder what the reason is that it got torn down. Iāve learned that there used to be a decent amount of more neighborhood mixed properties use throughout ITB (primarily East and South) that had been demolished during the 90s and 2000s that seemed really short sighted.
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Itās funny because up until the city purchased this lot, it was seemingly operating fine. But here is a picture of what the property looked like after 2 years of the city owning it:
Two years later it was demolished:
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