At A Glance

A 1947 cottage. And a new key on the back lot.

The main house carries three bedrooms, two baths, an open kitchen and great-room. The newly built studio ADU sits behind it on its own footprint, with its own entrance, its own yard, and its own hot tub. The arithmetic writes itself.

Bedrooms

Bathrooms

Total Sqft

Lot Sqft

Year Built

360

ADU Sqft

Property Type

Single Family + ADU

Solar

Paid-Off System

Parking

EV-Ready, Wide Drive

HOA

None

The Tour

Walk the rooms. Then the back lot.

Open great room with white kitchen, fireplace, oak-tone flooring, and counter-height pendant lighting

Front of the house from a side angle showing the awning detail and trimmed hedges

Sunlit living room with new fireplace and adjacent breakfast bar

Remodeled kitchen with white shaker cabinets and stainless appliances

Primary bedroom with recessed lighting and warm wood floor

Second bedroom staged as a workspace, west-facing window

Updated bathroom with white subway tile and a walk-in shower

Backyard with pavers, manicured turf, and mature side hedge

The permitted studio ADU at twilight, a small cream stucco building with its own front door, window, and patio dining set

The Reasoning

Built to pay for itself.

The main residence is a 1,335 square-foot single-story on a quiet leg of the Bellflower interior access road. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, an open kitchen with a peninsula seating three, a great-room arrangement with the fireplace opposite the range. Every finish surface was touched in the recent remodel: cabinets, counters, recessed lighting, flooring, paint, and the bathrooms down to the tile.

Behind it sits the 360 square-foot studio ADU. Fully permitted, newly completed, and finished to the same standard as the main house. It has its own entrance off the driveway, its own outdoor space with a hot tub, and an electrical run that is separately metered through the paid-off solar array. Rent it. Move a parent into it. Work out of it. The seller built the optionality on purpose.

The lot is 6,288 square feet, deeper than it is wide, with an extra-wide driveway and EV-ready circuit at the front. Street parking is ample along the interior access road. California State University Long Beach sits a few minutes south. The grocery and dining on Spring and Bellflower are a short walk.

The Plan

Open kitchen, fireplace anchor.

Great-room arrangement with the peninsula seating three. The fireplace squares the room.

The Power

Paid solar. EV-ready.

The solar array is owned, not leased. The driveway circuit is wired for a wall charger.

The Income

A permitted ADU.

360 square feet, separate entrance, separate yard, hot tub. Rent-ready.

The Lot

6,288 sqft, paver-finished.

Front and back, with manicured turf and a small succulent garden between.

The permitted studio ADU at 1901 N Bellflower at twilight, a cream stucco building with warm window light, its own front door, and a patio dining set under string lights

The Second Key

A studio of its own.

Built from the ground up, permitted to current code. Its own front door, its own yard, its own hot tub. Long-term rental, in-law unit, studio, or quiet workspace. The flexibility is engineered, not retrofitted.

360

Sqft

Entrance

Hot Tub

The Math

Estimate your payment, quietly.

Adjust your down payment and rate. The ADU's potential income is not factored in. That part is upside.

Down Payment 20% · $248,600

Interest Rate 6.75%

Term

Monthly Principal & Interest

$6,452

Estimate only. Excludes taxes, insurance, and HOA. Speak with a lender for an accurate figure.

The Setting

Los Altos, by the university.

Los Altos is the quiet northeast of Long Beach: post-war single-family blocks arranged around CSULB, with grocery, taquerias, and the Los Altos shopping center inside a short walk. The Bellflower interior road keeps the address off the main artery; the front yard is shielded from traffic noise by the road's set-back. Five minutes to Cal State Long Beach. Ten minutes to El Dorado Park. Twenty minutes to the harbor.

Two homes.
One lot.