Homes with an ADU or casita in Price.

An accessory dwelling is a property feature, not a promise. On a Price listing it means a secondary living space that can function on its own: a second kitchen, its own bathroom, a separate exterior entrance, and sometimes a separate utility meter. The words move around. A basement apartment is a lower level built out that way, a casita is usually a detached unit set apart from the house, and a mother-in-law suite is usually an attached apartment on the main or upper floor. The reason this search exists in Carbon County is the same reason the photos can mislead you, so read the page before you read the listing: a finished basement and a legal apartment are two different things, and the difference is whether the space is actually permitted.

Price is good ground for this search, and the form it takes here is mostly the basement apartment. The Price River valley sits at roughly 5,600 feet in genuinely cold high desert, with snowy winters, so foundations go down and full basements are the norm rather than the exception. That means the older established homes on the downtown grid, near the US-6 and US-191 corridor, carry a deep stock of finished lower levels, and adding a second kitchen and a private entrance to that kind of full basement is exactly the conversion these listings describe most often. An attached mother-in-law suite turns up more in the larger two-story floor plans on the newer edge subdivisions, and a sloped lot at the valley's edges can let a lower level open to grade with full windows and a real door. A fully detached casita is the rarest shape here, since it takes a lot with room for a second structure, so the acreage and rural parcels toward Wellington are the natural place to find one, and it is a find rather than an expectation. There is also genuine rental demand in town, with the USU Eastern campus and the hospital both in the middle of it, so a true separate suite is a real local search rather than a novelty. Treat that as demand for the property type and a zoning-and-permit question, not as anything about who would live there.

Here is the part that matters more than any photo. A finished basement is not the same as a legal apartment, and neither is a converted room over the garage or a detached structure out back. A second kitchen and an outside door do not make a unit conforming on their own, and a great many existing accessory units in older Utah housing were finished over the years without permits or were built before today's rules. That is not a reason to walk away, but it is the reason to verify rather than assume. The two questions that decide everything are whether the unit is permitted with Price City and whether it has its own legal egress, meaning a code-sized window well or a door out of every sleeping room below grade. What an accessory dwelling is allowed to be on a given property depends on that parcel's zoning, so the answer is property-specific, not citywide.

Treat any income angle with the same caution. I will not put a rent figure or a payment figure on a page like this, because what a unit could earn depends on its legal status, the specific space, and rules that can change, and a non-conforming unit cannot be counted on at all. What I can do is point you at the right stock. If a true separate suite is the goal, the older-core ramblers are the natural hunting ground, so the single-story page is a useful next stop, and the bigger plans on the two-story page sometimes carry the deepest lower levels. If you only want the extra square footage and not a second kitchen, the homes with a basement page is the wider search, a different intent than this one. Earlier in the process than show me listings? Start with the Price guide, and when a home below reads right, that is the moment to reach out.