Soft Costs and Professional Fees - Could you share insights on budgeting for architects, engineers, project managers, and legal fees?

It will also give you the opportunity to grow your network as you will be dealing with owners/developers, architects/engineers, and skilled labor on a daily basis.

I am a young architect and founding partner of the design/build firm Faros Design.Build.Remodel (FDBR).

I'm an architect by trade as well.

Buy/Hold just doesn't seem to pencil in our backyards at this time, so we are leaning towards OOS investing where cash flow and COC seems to be more prominent.

I am a licensed Architect in the State of New York who recently relocated to California.

Key was using a local and experienced architect within the town.We installed new foundation walls from superior walls and began out build.We went with a modern design, outside of our normal traditional colonial, but we feel it came out great.

Don't know where they are in the process, it may be done, but an excellent architect was used and a large investment made.

BTW, they do not have to be done by an architect at this stage--your rough sketch should suffice.I made copies of the drawings and highlighted each system. 

After researching quite a bit, I decided that finding architects and a modular build consultancy and arranging the GC myself is probably the way to go.