Like-for-like rebuild
Rebuild your home to its original footprint and square footage under the streamlined fire-rebuild rules — the fastest path through permitting, and often the best fit for insurance coverage.
Pacific Palisades · Fire Rebuild Specialists
One licensed team takes your rebuild from cleared lot to move-in: insurance scope alignment, architectural plans, LADBS fast-track permitting, and construction. You get a clear schedule and one point of contact the whole way.
Tell us where your property is and where you are in the process. We'll walk the lot with you and give you a straight answer on scope, timeline, and budget.
How it works
Most of the stress in a fire rebuild comes from not knowing what happens next. So here is exactly what happens next.
We walk your lot together, review your insurance scope of loss if you have one, and give you an honest read on what a rebuild looks like — scope, budget range, and timeline.
We prepare a contractor's estimate in the format adjusters expect, so your claim and your construction budget describe the same house. Gaps get found now, not mid-build.
Like-for-like plans of your original home, or a redesign within the rebuild allowances. We coordinate the architect, structural engineer, and soils work under one schedule.
We run the LADBS fire-rebuild fast-track process and handle Coastal-zone review where it applies, so your file moves instead of sitting in a queue.
A published schedule, weekly updates with photos, and one project manager who answers the phone. Through final inspection, certificate of occupancy, and keys.
What we build
Rebuild your home to its original footprint and square footage under the streamlined fire-rebuild rules — the fastest path through permitting, and often the best fit for insurance coverage.
Take the opportunity to build the house you actually want — updated layout, modern systems, fire-hardened materials — while staying inside the allowances that keep approvals moving.
Add an accessory dwelling unit or expand during the rebuild while crews and permits are already mobilized — for rental income, family, or living on-site during a future project.
Every rebuild we do is fire-hardened by default: ignition-resistant exteriors, ember-resistant vents, and defensible-space planning built into the design, not bolted on.
Insurance
The most expensive mistake in a fire rebuild is a construction contract that doesn't match the insurance scope of loss. We work in the adjuster's language — Xactimate-style line items, code-upgrade coverage, extended replacement cost — so the money and the build stay reconciled from day one.
Public adjusting is available through our affiliated firm, Adjuster Pro Inc (adjusterproinc.com) — licensed public adjusters who represent homeowners, not insurance companies, in documenting and negotiating fire claims.
California law keeps the two roles separate: on any one claim you get either our public adjusting services or our construction services, never both — so it's always clear who works for you. For legal disputes we'll tell you plainly when you need an attorney.
"The families who move home fastest aren't the ones who fight hardest — they're the ones whose paperwork, plans, and builder were never out of sync."
— Asher Peretz, FounderQuestions
In most cases, yes — like-for-like rebuilds (same footprint, same use) qualify for streamlined review that skips much of the normal discretionary process. We confirm your parcel's specifics at the site assessment before anything is promised.
Honest answer: it depends on plans, permits, and your lot — but a like-for-like rebuild typically moves fastest because the review path is shortest. At the site assessment we give you a timeline for your parcel, not an average, and then we publish the schedule and report against it weekly.
It's the best time. A contractor's estimate of true replacement cost is often the document that moves a stalled claim. We prepare it in the format adjusters work in, and it costs you nothing to have us look.
Parts of the Palisades sit in the coastal zone and parts don't, and rebuild exemptions cover many like-for-like cases. We check your parcel and tell you exactly which review path applies before you spend money on design.
Yes, within limits — modest expansions and ADUs can often ride along with the rebuild. Larger changes can trigger fuller review and add time. We lay out the trade-off in plain numbers so you can decide with your eyes open.
Yes — through our affiliated firm, Adjuster Pro Inc, whose licensed public adjusters represent homeowners in documenting and negotiating insurance claims. California law keeps the roles separate on any single claim: Adjuster Pro can fight for your settlement, or we can build your home, but the same claim never gets both. At the site assessment we'll help you decide which you need first.
Nothing. We walk the lot, review your documents, and give you our honest read. If we're not the right fit for your project, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
Get started
Tell us about your property and we'll schedule a walk-through. Prefer to talk? Call us — a person answers.
Serving Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and the surrounding Westside.