@Alex Geesey For Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, an architect recently told me they aren’t allowing you the option to have a separate meter on a garage conversion (Jr ADU), but when they were allowing it, it was a cost is about $5000 😱

You need to figure out what you'd build, whether the town will allow it, if you'll need to change the zoning, how much it will cost, what kind of financing you can get, timeline, how much it will cost you based on the financing and the timeline, a good architect, a good engineer, what it will be worth when it's done, what your plans are for when it's complete etc.

The world is full of frustrated architects.

My alley neighbor built an ADU by himself-2 car garage and 450 sqft living space and he gave me his drawings so I can go back to that architect to make some changes and get pretty close to what I want.

Whether you have kids or not, single or married, young or old, highly successful or just starting out your career, we can all relate to wanting to be the architect of our life and discover a way to make money passively and build our wealth, to free up our time to live the lifestyle we want on our own terms.

I'm new to the industry (I'm a recovering IT Architect) but in my head I figured there are plenty of reasons to have broker requirements for purchase/sale of property, but I guess I was expecting property management to have its own set of rules/licenses/requirements.I'm in Ohio as well but I'm down at the other end of the state where we don't get the "Lake Effect" weather this time a year :)Thank you for your thoughtful response!

@Lydia Lorraine does your client have an Architect?

Any input, suggestions or recommendations (Architect, Contractor, etc.)

I'm an architect so I actually have to sit down and read that darn thing lol.

I have also shared my design idea with freelance architects, one of which has created a 3D exterior building drawing for me.