That can be inspect the property, scope the sewers, visit with your contractor, visit with your architect, and/or arrange your financing.When I see posts like this I see folks that haven't been on the seller side of a bad deal.

All I do is housing as an architect and my two sons are new & successful builders. 

For example the architect of a lot of the crazy tenant laws put in place here is a high school graduate - she has no education in economics, real estate, history or anything..... 

@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.

After extensive research for different paths as to how to get there, I've landed on multi-family investing as the best vehicle to great wealth for us to do so.In the past few months I've read several books, attended online trainings, met with some prominent syndicators, and ventured into a few local meet ups and have met some really great, helpful people.

Maybe there should be (or if it exists, it could be more prominent) a short "read this first" article or sticky that clearly details the type of financing and deals a beginner is likely to actually have access to, as well as what they typically cost and what kinds of upfront fees are normal vs not normal.

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.