ADU SNOHOMISH

Why ADUs, because they’re self-serving. They’re an easy sell, because ADU development is, in fact, an incredibly self-serving thing to do with your money. 

With an ADU, you’re investing right directly into your future self. Once you’re done, you immediately add substantial extra income in your life if you rent one unit. That income will generally be greater than the costs of additional payment for the amortized construction loan for the project. 

Furthermore, you’re adding significant long-term resale value to your property. 

You’re also gaining extraordinary flexibility with your property.

An ADU can shift its functional roles in life fairly easily from a home, to an office, to a guest room. 

I suspect many ADUs used as short term rentals will be getting out of that use now that the market will dry up overnight. Some ADUs will change into super awesome Coronavirus recovery and isolation shelters, if that’s what becomes collectively needed. Here’s the first example of that type of use I’ve seen documented. 

With aspiring homeowner developers, I don’t typically focus on the civic motivations of why everyone should build them.

But, now it’s important for all homeowners to take new factors into consideration. The next 1-3 years is the timeframe to act on the idea of developing an ADU. 

I’ve never had to phrase ADU development in quite these terms, but with the Coronavirus Recession, homeowners should start to consider it a civic duty to consider putting an ADU (or two) on their property.

ADUs offer the U.S. the chance to achieve several key policy goals at this point in time, which I’ll enumerate below. But, they suddenly offer something new and critical and timely; a chance for us to help our communities save themselves from the impending economic outfall of the Coronavirus.