I’ve been struggling for more than 8 months to get the Inglewood project going. The project permitting phase has been like a brain damaging mind virus, always percolating in the background. What is amazing is that this project was totally non controversial, a contextual permitted use twin detached homes. This should have been among the smoothest and easiest permit processes ever. Instead, at this point I have countless hours and months of delays to be thankful for. I’ve missed the entire construction season (despite being an amazing fall, it can’t last). I’d estimate the time value losses and now weather related losses to be well into the $30k range. Expenditure on land, asbestos, demo, design, engineering, consultant work and now finally paid the last of $20k in city fees has added up into a numbing set of soft costs. I guess this is why home building is for the extremely brave, foolish or deep pocketed only.