Kitchenette considered an ADU?

[Sid Holderly]

In this area zoning does not care, local lenders do not care, only a few AMC's care and have different rules and regs.
What would you call a one-room lakeside heated and cooled party bar/kitchen?

 

[Mejappz]

In this area zoning does not care, local lenders do not care, only a few AMC's care and have different rules and regs.
What would you call a one-room lakeside heated and cooled party bar/kitchen?

Same here. The owner will usually partition a part of the house to create the ADU. If it is similar to the rest of the house, it is usually a functional issue, i.e., the floor plan has been altered.

 

[Tom D]

hey fernando, did you ask the owner's why they had it this way. might have gotten the answer to your question.

 

[sputnam]

There are published standards regarding what constitutes an ADU. Might want to do some research.

 

[Tom4value]

Seems a major issue was missed here. What does the local zoning enforcement officer say it is?

 

[Fernando]

hey fernando, did you ask the owner's why they had it this way. might have gotten the answer to your question.

Their inlaws live in the house. I suspect they live downstairs.
If my inlaws lived in my house, I prefer them to stay down there.

 

[Fernando]

Seems a major issue was missed here. What does the local zoning enforcement officer say it is?

I noticed lenders are more tolerant of ADUs or inlaws in single family zoning.
CA has encouraged more ADUs to be built trying to relax the rules.
There was a nearby city trying to change SFR zoning allowing multiunits to be built. Few weeks ago (must be local opposition) that idea was rescinded.
I heard Sacramento did this. I know it suppose to increase housing in area but detrimental to existing SFR homeowners' values.

 

[Tom4value]

Not around heya (I am from MA). Fannie Mae says if you have an illegal ADU get two comps with illegal ADUs. You won’t find any because they can’t close a loan with one.

 

[Fernando]

I'm doing one with an ADU. Hate that because I need to find at least one (since not many I seem to get away with just one comp).
Fortunately I did an appraisal in adjoining area which had an ADU comp. Will grab a comp from prior report. Got lucky this time.

 

[DJBanas]

2 kitchens do not an ADU make. A house down the street has 2 kitchens, a regular and a kosher kitchen. The owners took half the dining room and had the 2nd kitchen installed. They got permits and came around door-to-door asking if any neighbors had an issue with this. Everything must be looked at in context.