They usually won't recommend but they know the good ones.Talk to some architects or even better hire an architect to create the plans.

Then we had to have plans drawn by an architect. 

Rick H.There is a nationally renown {retired} architect in the City whose specialty is restoration and preservation of Second Empire and Victorian buildings.

Hello BP community, I've been a long time listener of the podcast and I've been house hacking my current property for about 2 years with a good amount of success.  I'm looking for 4 things out of joining the community...

My buddy is a designer/architect/contractor that does work primarily in the South Bay and Westside of Los Angeles, that's where I get my numbers from.

Right now the current owner has plans drawn up from an architect for 4 two bedroom apartments in the remaining space, approximately 600 sq ft each.

If I do full gut job, which I suspect will be removing all wall and floors, would I need a architect or can a GC help me with putting it back together?

I have been researching and planning this tear down for near a decade and just hired the architect.

I don't know your experience level in all the responsibilities of developing property but I can tell you that architecture/engineering is a small fraction of the duties required to get this done (like 4-5% - BTW I was an architect in a former life). 

I'm not a lawyer, so don't take that as gospel.Section 13-80-127(1)(a), C.R.S. provides for a two year statute of limitation of actions against construction professionals like architects, contractors, builders, builder-vendors, engineers, inspectors, and those performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision, inspection, construction, or observation of construction of any improvement to real property.Section 13-80-104, C.R.S. provides that in no case shall any action be brought against any architect, contractor, builder or builder-vendor, engineer, or inspector performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision, inspection, construction, or observation of construction of any improvement to real property more than six years after the substantial completion of the improvement to the real property.