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Re:California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartm... by souprock on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:45PM (#19734174)
I know people who did this. They were a nice well-behaved family, though a bit clueless about some things. Converting to add an apartment exposed them to stuff that hadn't really been a part of their world, like prostitution and drugs. Yep, renters ran that out of the apartment.

The downsides are real. If you dislike having police raid your house in the middle of the night, this isn't for you.

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Re:California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartm... by ScottFree on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @07:36AM (#19737351)
My parents lived in the front half of a duplex house and rented out the back half for years. One night, the tenant fell asleep with a cigarette in his mouth and burned our house down.

The downsides are real.

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