That is, finding ways to reduce the costs of our home by renting something out on our property.
In the last 2 homes we’ve lived in, we have covered all of our primary housing expenses just by renovating a garage space and putting it on Airbnb. This reduced our ongoing housing costs to essentially $0.
We moved into a new house last year and we’ve been trying to figure out how we want to “hack” it. Once you get used to not having housing expenses, it’s hard to go back to paying them.
We’ve had multiple options:
- There is a large storage shed in the backyard that we could renovate.
- There’s a separate wing of our house that we could wall off for guests.
- We could build an additional small structure in the backyard.
But, honestly, we didn’t love these options for a variety of reasons.
That’s when we had an idea.
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