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Who owns the plans? That’s complicated. (You paid for the design service, not the plan.)
If you are a typical owner, you expect to "own" your plans after you hire a designer and pay them to create a design for you. That is not exactly how it works because any set of plans has liability and copyright issues…
Planning and Building Permits Required For a Kitchen Remodel, Primary Bath and Bedroom Addition in San Rafael, CA
At New Avenue we have paid over 30 different types of permits to get residential projects approved. We recently completed a conversion of a nearly 100 year old duplex and can share some of our research…
What Designers Say When Construction Bids Come In
We received the following email from a designer as bids were coming in for one of their projects…
Permit costs and time required to build a duplex, triplex, or accessory dwelling
We get calls every week from people who want to turn a single-family home into a duplex, convert a garage to turn a duplex into a triplex, or add an accessory dwelling unit to their property. Inevitably, these clients want to know about the permit process and costs for adding to their existing structures…
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