Few San Francisco lots have room for a cottage out back. Many units here get built under the living floors instead: in a garage, a ground-floor storage level, or unused space in a small apartment building.
Attached houses on narrow lots leave little yard to build in, so the space under the living floors does the work. Ceiling height, the foundation, and where the garage door sits decide what fits, and owners rarely know which of those applies to them until a builder looks.
State ADU law lets owners of multi-unit buildings convert non-living space such as storage rooms and garages into new units. Those owners think like investors: cost, rent, and how long the tenants upstairs live with the noise. They need an ad and a page of their own.
Some owners already have a finished room or an old in-law setup on the ground floor that was never permitted. They want to know whether it can become a legal unit and what that takes. A page that addresses it plainly, without judgment, brings in owners other builders never hear from.
On a scheduled shoot we film a finished unit from the sidewalk entry through to the kitchen, plus a garage mid-conversion with framing and new windows going in. Owners of similar houses see the before and after in their own floor plan.
The form asks for the address, the building type, ceiling height if known, photos of the space, and whether the unit is for family or rent. You decide which spaces deserve a visit before anyone crosses town in traffic.
Owners of older wood-frame buildings facing a soft-story retrofit sometimes add a unit while the ground floor is open anyway. If you do both, that owner gets a separate campaign. Engineering and code answers come from you and your engineer.
Example numbers for a adu building business. Change them to yours.
Each lead is worth (revenue): $10,000
$200,000 project, 30% margin, 25% of leads booked, 20% of estimates closed.
See what we’d build for these numbersStarts with example numbers. Change them to yours. Arithmetic only, not a promise of results.
Yes, and we’d recommend it. A homeowner converting a garage and an investor adding a unit to a building ask different questions and decide on different timelines, so each gets its own ad, page, and follow-up.
No. Plans, permits, and inspections stay with you and your designer. Our job is getting owners with a workable space to a site visit, with photos and building details already in your hands.
Often months. Owners line up financing, talk with tenants or family, and wait on drawings. Follow-up sends recent builds and a booking link on a schedule you approve until they book or opt out.
No. We’re a service-area business based in the Fresno area with no offices. We travel for scheduled shoots on your jobs, quote the trip first, and run everything else remotely.
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