What an ADU Means on a Lane County Listing
The three labels do not all mean the same thing. An accessory dwelling unit is a separate home with its own kitchen and its own entrance. Guest quarters might be a detached cottage, or it might be a suite over the garage with a door into the main house — and the listing does not always say which. If that difference matters to your plans, whether you are housing a parent, renting it out, or working from it, it is worth pinning down on a particular home before you go see it.
Second units turn up across the county, not in one pocket of it. You will find them on older Eugene lots deep enough to sit a cottage behind the house, on Springfield properties with a converted shop, and on acreage out toward the smaller towns where a second dwelling was built for family. Our agents work this county full time and can tell you what a specific setup is likely to be before you spend a Saturday on it.
