From signed contract
to first month's rent
in five months.

Site walk and pro forma

We come to your lot. We measure. We tell you the truth.

One of our project managers tape-and-laser the buildable rear, walks the utility runs from the street to where the unit will sit, photographs the trees, and pulls a parcel report on the way back to the truck. By the end of week one, you have:

• Hard, fixed quote — soft costs included, no "starting at"
• Permit timeline by jurisdiction with named planner contact
• Fixed all-in price + rough payback math based on local rent comps
• Honest go / no-go on whether your lot pencils — including the lots that don't

Design phase

You pick the colors. We lock the spec book.

Pre-engineered doesn't mean cookie-cutter. You sit down with our designer — in the showroom or over Zoom — and pick from the curated spec book. Each plan has three or four looks dialed in, so most clients decide in an afternoon. The swap-ins are real choices, not pre-fab compromises.

• Cabinet color and door style — shaker or slab, six finish options
• Countertop — quartz, butcher block, or solid surface
• Flooring — luxury vinyl plank, engineered hardwood, or polished concrete
• Bathroom tile pattern, accent color, and grout
• Interior paint scheme — three curated palettes plus custom
• Exterior siding color, trim accent, and roof color
• Optional upgrades — gas range, soaking tub, deck extension, smart locks

Plans, permits, foundation

Three things start the same week. None of them wait for the others.

With finishes locked, the site fit takes about three days — orientation, foundation type, utility tie-in points, exact lot placement. The same week we submit to the jurisdiction, your factory slot opens and your foundation crew gets put on the schedule.

Set day

A crane, a flatbed, six hours, and a building.

The unit ships overnight on a low-boy. Crane arrives at 7 a.m. We've already pulled the right-of-way permit if your driveway needs it. By 1 p.m., the building is on the foundation. By 5 p.m., the seam is weather-sealed and the porch is on. Neighbors take photos. You take a deep breath.

Stitch, finish & landscape

Plumbing, power, gas, paint — then we make the lot look like a finished home.

Stitch week ties the unit to the utility services we ran during foundation. Mechanical inspection, plumbing inspection, electrical inspection, building final — usually all in the same week. Touch-up paint. Final cleaning. Then we hand the lot to our landscape crew so what your tenant sees on move-in day looks like a finished home, not a construction site.

Landscaping & beautification — included

• Final grading and topsoil dressing around the foundation, sloped 5% away for drainage
• Sod or native PNW seed mix on the buildable yard (sword fern, salal, kinnikinnick on shaded edges)
• Concrete walkway from primary residence to DADU entry (4×30 ft standard) plus a small front pad
• Two screening shrubs at the front entry and a hardscape gravel bed at the dryer-vent corner
• Down-cast exterior LED lighting at the entry, dusk-to-dawn sensor, no light spill to neighbors
• House-number plate and a single piece of fence/screen between main house and DADU if line-of-sight requires it
• Construction debris hauled, mulch laid, irrigation stub left at the meter for future drip if you add planters later

Mature trees and decorative beds beyond this baseline are quoted separately — most clients add $4–8K worth of plantings, but it's optional and we'll never bundle it into the contract without your sign-off.

Certificate of occupancy

The unit is legally rentable.

We hand you the C of O, the warranty packet, the as-built drawings, the permit close-outs, and the appliance manuals in one binder. Keys to you. Most clients have a tenant signed within two weeks.