Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

If it feels like I'm weirdly emotionally invested in what is — to *you* — a completely hypothetical bit of commentary on the various kinds of housing that might be built, I'd invite you to consider why that might be.

I should let this go, but I can't: Do you actually believe you understand what it is like to *live* in a typical ADU because you spent — what, a month? — in a carriage house vacation rental managed by a professional management company? I'm still in awe.

It's not the architecture. It's extremely likely to be managed by someone who's not a professional, has little or no experience managing property, and lives within view. Because it's a single unit, there'll generally be no way to find reviews or references.

I understand the hobbyist landlord's perspective — it's easy to see your property as "your space." Tenants who are students or otherwise transient might not mind. But when you're a long-term renter who wants to be treated professionally, an ADU will rarely work for you.