Build and Hold
Keep your land, add a small apartment building, and own the income. We lead the design and permits, build it, lease it up, and manage it, as one team.
Seattle’s Rules Changed in Your Favor
Since January 2026, most Neighborhood Residential lots allow stacked flats at one home per 600 square feet of lot area. A typical 6,000 square foot lot can hold around ten apartments, with no parking required for smaller units. For an owner who wants long-term income instead of a sale, that is a different kind of asset than one house or a backyard cottage.
From First Look to Rent Roll
1. Landowner Consult
A complimentary consult. We look at zoning, size, access, utilities, and trees, and tell you what the site can hold and whether a rental building makes sense.
2. Site analysis and design
We test unit counts, mix, and budget, then design a building meant to be owned for decades, not flipped.
3. Permitting
We manage the architect, engineers, and the City review through permit issuance.
4. Construction
Our own crews and superintendent build it to the same written standard as our homes.
5. Lease-up
We market the units, screen applicants under fair housing law, and sign the first leases.
6. Property and asset management
We run the building after opening: ongoing leasing and renewals, rent collection, maintenance, turnover, budgeting, and regular reporting to you.
Each phase is scoped and quoted on its own after the consult. You can stop after any phase.
We Own Buildings Like This Ourselves
We hold rental homes on the same streets we build on, so we plan every building for the owner who will still have it in year fifteen: durable finishes, simple systems, layouts that rent well and turn over cleanly. One team leads the design, builds it, and manages it, so the decisions that drive operating costs are made by the people who will live with them.
Is It a Fit?
- Best fit if you want income from your land for the long term and can carry a construction loan, or bring a partner who can.
- Not a fit if you need cash from the land soon. Selling or partnering may serve you better.
- Timeline: often two years or more from first meeting to lease-up, depending on the site and permitting.
- Financing: most owners use a construction loan converted to permanent financing. We can introduce you to lenders we work with.
Tell Us About the Property
If it’s not a fit, we’ll say so on the call and you’ll have spent nothing.
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