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Understanding our 15-Minutes Free Consultation
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Yes, we are a company of integrity, and we pride ourselves for listening to our clients before offering any services. No one knows best what you need than yourself, we will suggest ways to get there, after we listened to you.
That's the reason why we created the possibility for you to book a 15 Min FREE consultation with one of our specialists.
Be ready to speak more than listening, because at this point we need to know a bunch of details about the work.
Even if it doesn't make sense to you, answer any questions to the best of your abilities, in the end you will see that it was time well spent.
We prepared a video for you explaining how it works. Enjoy!
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Why we do not publish prices
You have probably noticed that this site explains a great deal about how work is done and never gives you a number. That is deliberate, and it is worth explaining rather than leaving you to wonder.
A published price for construction work is either a guess or a trap.
Two houses on the same street routinely produce different numbers for the same job. A patio cover in a fire hazard severity zone has a different material list from one two streets over. A driveway on expansive clay needs subgrade work that an identical driveway on granular fill does not. A gas line depends on what the meter can already carry.
A contractor who publishes a figure for those is either quoting the easiest possible version of the job, and will change it later, or quoting the worst case, and will lose the work to someone who did the first thing.
We would rather spend fifteen minutes finding out which version your property is.
What fifteen minutes can actually settle
More than people expect. On most calls we can tell you:
Which jurisdiction issues your permit, which is not always the city on your mailing address
Whether your parcel is likely in a fire hazard severity zone, which changes materials rather than preferences
Whether the thing you are describing needs a permit at all
Whether a pre-approved standard plan fits, which is usually the fastest route
What order the work has to happen in, which is where most money gets wasted
Whether an HOA approval runs in parallel, and whether state law limits what they can refuse
Whether this is something we should look at in person, or something we can scope from the call
That last one is the real purpose. The call decides whether a site visit is necessary. It is not a sales screen.
How to get the most out of it
Be ready to talk more than listen. The more specific you are, the more useful the fifteen minutes is. Useful things to have in front of you:
The address, and whether it is inside city limits or unincorporated
Roughly when the property was built
Whether the lot slopes, and which way
Whether you are on sewer or septic
Whether there is a homeowners association
Photographs, if the question is about something that is failing
Any letter you have received from the city, and its number if it has one
If you do not have all of that, call anyway. Half of it is enough to be useful.
What it is not
Being straight about the limits is part of being useful.
It is not a quote. Nobody can price construction responsibly without knowing what is under the surface
It is not a design session. We can tell you what is possible and what is restricted, not draw you a plan
It is not an inspection. An opinion formed over the phone is an opinion formed over the phone, and we will say so
What happens after
One of two things, and we will tell you which on the call.
Either the job is clear enough to scope from what you have described, and we move forward on that basis.
Or it needs somebody on site with measurements and photographs, in which case the next step is the paid assessment, and we explain exactly what that produces before you agree to it: how our paid assessment works.
And if you already know what you need and it is a small, defined job, there is a faster path that skips both: how our ready to work booking works.
Who should call
Homeowners who have been given a number by someone else and want to understand what is behind it. Owners and property managers who have received something from the city and are not sure what it means. Anyone planning a project and trying to work out the order to do it in.
And anyone who has just found out that their building falls under one of the mandatory ordinances, which is the most time-sensitive reason to call: earthquake retrofit in Los Angeles.
Call (323) 651-0635 to book the free 15-minute consultation.
The Ultimate Pro, Inc. CA License 831700, Class B General Building. Serving Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange and San Bernardino counties since 1996.
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