Your expensive STR insurance will go way down when you switch to a regular landlord policy.  

They also ensure legal compliance with landlord-tenant and fair housing laws, manage eviction processes, and oversee safety regulations.Effective tenant relations and communication are also key, encompassing handling inquiries and complaints, providing regular updates, and resolving conflicts.Considering these comprehensive responsibilities is important when deciding between self-management and hiring a property management service.

This allows flippers, live-in flippers and regular joes to have another route for their financial or home owner goals.

It’s still affordable too—you can regularly find SFHs in the $120K–$180K range that meet or exceed the 1% rule and hit 10–12% cash-on-cash returns, especially if you’re buying below market and doing some light value-add work.

He suggest we simply file for a regular permit, not mention the work was previously done, and when all the required work is done to bring the unit in compliance to the plans, have an inspection done, and approved.

A regular house here is like a crappy shack somewhere else, people aren't interested and your rates will be bottom of the barrel. 

ADUs are regularly getting valuations of near 50% of what owner spent on the ADU addition.  

I agree with Andrew, your definitely at the point financially where you could hire a maintenance guy to cover service calls, turnovers and regular upgrades to the properties. 

Just to clarify...Kwikset Smartkey is completely mechanical (a "regular" lockset). 

These logs regularly end up in the Tax Court and are usually destroyed upon review.