General contractor in Van Nuys

Van Nuys combines modest post-war single-family housing on regular flat lots with one of the larger concentrations of 1960s and 1970s apartment buildings in the Valley.

• Flat regular lots and detached garages make garage conversions and detached ADUs straightforward and good value.
• The apartment stock includes many tuck-under parking buildings in scope for the soft-story retrofit ordinance.
• Rent stabilisation applies to most of the older multifamily, which shapes turnover and capital work.
• This is one of the better parts of the city for investor ADU and multifamily unit addition projects on cost grounds.

LADBS (City of Los Angeles), Van Nuys office

Sherman Oaks is in the City of Los Angeles, so permits run through LADBS. Hillside lots south of Ventura Boulevard fall under the Baseline Hillside Ordinance with grading, haul route and height rules. Flat lots north of the boulevard are well suited to additions, pools and detached ADUs.

1. Walk the property

We meet you on site, listen, and look at what the building and the city will need. You get a written scope and a budget range.

2. Drawings

When drawings are needed we bring in the architect and engineer, and price the design while it is being drawn.

3. Permit

We file with the city, handle the corrections they send back, and tell you where it stands.

4. Price and contract

An itemized price, a schedule and payment terms. Anything new after signing gets priced in writing first.

5. Build

One supervisor on your job, licensed trades, inspections in order, and a weekly update with photos.

6. Walkthrough

A final fix list, the city's sign-off, and a written warranty on our work.