However this direction would add a much higher value to the property.Personally I do think there is great appeal to the idea of being mobile, low footprint, minimalist living combined with affordable housing - especially for the millennial crowd who are saddled with enormous student loan debt and earning lower wages than the generation before them.

Graduating school (maybe) with a kind of degree you don't really want saddled with a bunch of student loan debt for a specialty you're not sure you will even use is a recipe for a mess.   

Instead of saddling them with a $5M commercial property (for instance), you can turn that into 166k shares and divide them amongst your kids (who are in line to get a full step-up in basis when you pass away). 

Right now I believe many owners are saddled with debt incurred from the 2006/2007 timeframe

The old plan, I would have needed to continue teaching until I was 70, my child would have been saddled with a lot of student debt, and who knows if I would even be here at 70 years old? 

But will be back in the saddle and ready to engage soon!  

It could saddle the governor with some of the blame for the largest property tax increase in modern Chicago history.

It’s really their disbelief that it’s possible to successfully invest in RE and own/gain lucrative profits .. without saddling yourself into an over extended mortgage for ur entire life.

So it's really a pretty low risk scenario, and may not even be permanent if I turn it into a rental and go back to renting myself.Grant's ideas work for me since I don't like to be permanently anchored to anything or saddled with debt and big mortgage payments on an asset that produces no income, so I think it's solid advice for some people.

There is absolutely no reason for me to saddle my house with a 30 year lease on a system that if I sell the new owner may not want.Solar is great when your electrical bill runs in the 3-600 a month range.