Homebase ideas for future nomads

[Steven V.]

Hey everyone - super happy I found this forum. I'm here to look for advice and potentially connect with someone who can help us with our investment plan.

We're a couple with no kids who are thinking of working remotely for a few years post COVID. Our families are scattered across the world so we'd like to spend some time with them once the situation improves, while keeping Seattle as our homebase. Here's a rough outline of the plan:

* buy a house. either something with a big enough plot of land to build an ADU or anything with a separate entrance and bathroom

* live there until international travel gets back to normal (currently renting in SLU)

* move all our stuff in the ADU, rent the main home, take off

This will give us a place to come back to whenever we feel like it. Goal would be to have the rent cover a decent percentage of the mortgage - we're currently renting so this would be our first property. We're willing to give up our urban lifestyle temporarily and buy outside of Seattle if the prices are better.

Any advice on the best type of property to consider? And potential neighborhoods or cities we should be looking at?

Thanks :)