Most small contractors willing to trade dollars for volume just won't be able to handle a big uptick in quantity of work.HOWEVER... the trouble spot that OP was presenting was that he was having a hard time getting a contractor of adequate size and capability to handle a LOT of work.The trouble here is that a good builder/developer/renovator of 'real' size and capabilities (Office, real management, infrastructure to handle several ground crews, maybe an architect/designer on board full time, someone to handle material logistics, tools, etc.) is going to see the volume-for-lower-cost proposal as being weak... very, very weak.Let me go through the value-add bullet points and tell you why a large, capable firm (not a single dude... a firm) isn't going to care, and will be getting back in their truck as soon as an investor tells them "Give me a good rate and I'll give you 10 hours a second"- The contractor legitimately gets more workIf I am large enough to handle that much work, I have my own means for getting that work that are in place and working for me.

I even had an architect draw out a home for me. 

My government clients are always like that, the architects can't get the right stuff on paper all the time, the end user has a different imagination, and we always have to explain how we do it before we do it, especially if they are tenant improvement projects.

Company is pretty new, couldn't find too many reviews on it, but sounds promising, seems pretty affordable too, $40/month.Has anyone of you builders, architects, project managers, construction manager, used this web-based software?

In my area, sometime the property owner takes this one, sometimes its the architects, other times its lawyers.Me personally, I shy away from properties that require major zoning variances, many because they have a low likely hood to get approved around me.

I'm an IT professional by day (software architect), and am a partner in a small commodity trading firm (Zoi Capital, LLC) which trades commodity futures on behalf of our clients.  

Thanks for sharing your stories on investing in PHX with me and Account Closed is working on a project in Oakland east lake, she might need to talk to an architect. 

I need an awesome architect for a simple job right now.

Hi, as an architect I have experience in this area.  

According to him, total cost would be $20K -- $5-7K for legal, $5-7K for engineer (for plan on the lot etc), $5K for architect, $5K for the city fees (stuff like escrow/architect/attorney).