Almost certainly. LADBS controls code compliance. Your HOA or building management controls access, hours, insurance requirements, common area protection and often what you are allowed to change. The two are separate approvals and neither one substitutes for the other. We handle both.

Sometimes, and it depends on the building, not the code. Shared risers, slab construction and the position of the stack decide what is realistic. We assess the actual conditions in your unit before we design a layout that assumes plumbing can move.

Yes for anything structural, electrical, plumbing or mechanical. Cosmetic finish work generally does not need one. The reason to permit properly here is resale. Unpermitted alterations surface during escrow, and by then they cost more to resolve than they ever cost to do correctly.

If the property was first built on or before October 1, 1978, it may fall under the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance, and renovation work on an RSO building can require a Tenant Habitability Plan filed with the Los Angeles Housing Department before work begins. This is also the pathway that lets some owners recover renovation costs later, so it is worth doing correctly rather than quietly.

It depends on scope. Straightforward interior kitchen and bathroom work moves faster than additions or anything structural. We give you a schedule that includes review time rather than only construction weeks.

More than the permit. If the residential work will take longer than one day, or if any unit in the building is occupied by tenants, the city requires a means and method plan submitted to its Rent Stabilization Division before the building permit issues. On top of that, construction hours are enforced hard in multifamily blocks because complaints come from inside the building, not just the street. We sequence unit turnovers and common area work around occupancy so the building keeps running and the owner keeps the rent roll.

Yes. Most Westwood buildings limit construction to weekday business hours and restrict elevator use to set windows. We schedule around those rules from the start, because a crew that cannot get materials up is a crew you are paying to wait.

Yes. A single bathroom or a kitchen refresh in a condo is a normal Westwood project for us, and it is often how a client tests us before a larger job.

Unit size, finish level and building constraints drive it. In condos, access and protection requirements add real cost that a per square foot number will never show. We estimate after seeing the unit and reading the building’s rules.