#341: Crash Course on ADU Rental Investing (Accessory Dwelling Unit)
Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson
Chad Carson
4.9 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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🎙️ Episode #341 – Did you know building Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) can solve urban housing shortages? It's a win-win solution for investors, providing affordable housing options while generating extra rental income. Derek shows you how to leverage ADUs from zoning to good construction practices.
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🎬 Timestamps:
00:00 - ADU Solves Housing Crisis
01:07 - Benefits of ADUs
03:00 - Breaking Down the Numbers
06:33- Cost Saving Ways to Make ADUs
08:04 - Identifying Properties for ADUs
12:26 - Zoning Is Your Treasure Map
15:21 - Derek's Passion for ADUs
19:23 - Ideas/Templates for ADUs
27:43 - Getting the Money
34:10 - Where to Find Derek
35:14 - 7 Tips for Renting Out Your House
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| 0:00.0 | If you live at a city with a housing shortage, which pretty much covers most places these days, |
| 0:04.2 | you can be part of the solution and invest in profitable rental properties by building an accessory |
| 0:09.4 | dwelling unit or an ADU. |
| 0:12.1 | ADUs are smaller houses built on the same lot as a larger house, and they're part of an emerging, |
| 0:17.0 | popular way to build affordable housing and to invest in rental properties. |
| 0:21.4 | And to explain the best way to do this, I brought on none other than that ADU guy, |
| 0:25.6 | Derek Sherrill, to give us a crash course in ADU rental properties. |
| 0:29.7 | And we're getting started right now. |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome to the podcast Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm your host, Chad Carson. |
| 0:50.4 | You can also call me Coach Carson, and this is a show to help you get out of the financial grind so you can spend your time doing more of what matters. |
| 0:58.5 | This interview with Derek Sherrill was actually recorded live at the one rental at a time event in Las Vegas hosted by my friend and fellow real estate YouTuber Michael Zuber. |
| 1:04.2 | Please excuse the occasional noise in the background. And I want to thank Michael for allowing me to share this with you. |
| 1:09.6 | Now let's get to the conversation. I wanted to start with like, what's the basic benefit? What's the opportunity you see 2004 and investing in ADUs compared to everything else? What's the what's the basic benefit? What's the opportunity you see, 2004, and investing in |
| 1:11.8 | ADUs compared to everything else? What's the big value you see, the opportunity? I'd say the biggest |
| 1:17.0 | value in the long run is to provide more needed infill housing for our tenants. My competitive |
| 1:23.5 | advantage is putting myself in the shoes of a tenant. And I would like to say that |
| 1:27.6 | this is a great product for adding more needed housing. And that's first and foremost. |
| 1:32.0 | A lot of in the news all the time is about we don't have enough housing. Housing is not affordable, |
| 1:36.9 | especially in the West Coast, East Coast, big cities, but really everywhere in the U.S. |
| 1:40.9 | People, if you're a tenant, finding a good quality rental that's within your budget, |
| 1:45.8 | it's just incredibly hard right now. |
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