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Channel: Bay Cities Construction
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Hi everybody!
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my name is Alex
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with Bay Cities Construction
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and I'm here to tell you
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that if you're thinking about going
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to the city to pull your own building permits....
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You're going to the
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MIGRAINE FACTORY
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Folks...
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I've been in construction
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for over 14 years
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I don't like going to pull
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building permits.
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Hundreds of jobs later
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I see it all the time.
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Homeowners are
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trying to save money
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trying to get the process going
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with with the city
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inspectors and - the plan checkers
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and they go down to the city to pull their permits
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ONLY to be
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left with a substantial amount of disappointment.
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Okay
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So let's talk a little bit about
pulling your permits
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and what the process is,
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and what you're going to need
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the city will issue you one of these
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if you have all your ducks in a row this is
a job card and this is where the
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inspector will sign off every time he
does an inspection
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these are full set of plans
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if you're doing a home addition or
major remodel
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you're gonna need a full of plans.
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You're gonna need architectural plans
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structural plans
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you're also gonna need
some calculations
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you can sit down with
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a city plan-checker and go over all
these plans together
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IF you are missing
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any of their various
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pieces of information
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you're not gonna get your
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building permits that day
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over the years many of you have sent me questions ask
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me questions during our meetings
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and I want to go over some of those questions
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together with you
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and see if you get
some value out of.....
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these questions
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I think that getting the plans on your
own is probably a
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HORRIFICALLY BAD IDEA
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there's three different ways that you go
about getting your plans okay?
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you go through an architect,
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you go through a draft person,
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or you go through a general contractor
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like
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like our company
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like Bay Cities Construction
(the best contractor in the South Bay)
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An architect will go and get them for you
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a draft person "sometimes" goes and gets them for you
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and a general contractor
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"sometimes" will go get for you
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some contractors don't like to deal with the city
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So you should know that...
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that - that's an option
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that you may
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have talked to some contractors and THEY told you
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"I don't I don't get the permits - YOU got to go get them"
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so know that there's other people out there that
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would do it for you
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I really don't think so
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I think there's absolutely no savings
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Some people like to be part of the process
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of construction
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and that's cool
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but saving money?
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I don't think you're gonna save
money - you're probably gonna have to go
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two or three times
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to get what - hopefully
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your contractor or your architect could
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get you in one trip
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you're gonna miss work
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uhh..
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you may
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you "may" get delayed because quite frankly you
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don't know what you're doing
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so you may not have all of the stuff that the city
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requires and that in itself will cause delays
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think about it every time you
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go to the city and you get denied the
permit
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you go back and you ask the draft
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person, or the architect or, whoever did
the plans for you to get these
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corrections done
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and then that will take two weeks
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and you gotta come back again
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that back and forth big time delay
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and then the third one which is I think the
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most significant one
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if you go about getting these plans yourself
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okay
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you may have somebody design this for you and it may be the scope may be so big
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then you couldn't afford it, you can't
afford to build it that is the biggest
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tragedy that I see a lot that happens a
lot people will go out they get a set of
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plans drawn up for them and it's
extremely expensive to build the the
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over-design or for the person's budget
you should always, always, always, design
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towards a budget. You should have a
target budget up front and I have some
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content for that that about that that
I'll link to this video.
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so there's pitfalls if you hire a
contractor or architect or the drafts
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person to do this for you okay and you
got to hear both sides of story so you
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can make an informed decision either way
there could be delays because these pros
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the the professionals they could be
swamped with work right now the economy
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is going good there's a lot of work out
there there's a lot of people either
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building jobs or or in the process of
getting jobs approved so understand that
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you may experience a few months worth of delay may spend 3-4 months to get some
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plans approved some to get some plans
drawn up and approved okay so so
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consider that another pitfall is that
you could get you get a lousy design
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right like some people would say okay
look I need X number square feet you
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guys take care of it and for some reason
another they got a set of plans that
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function-wise isn't right there wasn't
enough thought put into it so that that
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could be a potential pitfall it doesn't
happen often but I've seen it the last
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one you hear stories about that but I
really don't think it's that common
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where you pay somebody for the plans and they disappear and then it never deliver
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plans you know it's happened I suppose
it could happen but I think that's an
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easy one that you can mitigate by making
sure you hire somebody who's reputable
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hiring somebody who's local is really
really important because they'll have an
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established rapport with the plan
checkers and people at the city that's
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that's a good way to stay out of trouble
folks getting your permits approved and
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getting your plans developed is an
important part of your construction
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projects get a team of pros don't don't
do it yourself I think you're gonna save
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yourself a lot of aggravation if you
need any more information about
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construction services getting your plans
built you can go to
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www.baycitiesconstruction.com
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