Cameron ADU

👷‍♂️General Contractor, 🏘️ ADU specialist, 🍱 foodie, ✈️ traveler, 🎶 music lover, So CA native. ☀️

[A @GDCAndrew]

My informal litmus test in this race: almost everyone I know who actually builds housing supports Pratt. Almost everyone I know who advocates for housing but doesn’t build housing supports Nithya. Draw your own conclusions.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

Going on 3 and a half weeks now, I’ve been trying to pay my electrical permit fees for a Los Angeles project that’s already been going on for months. (Inspector called out a missing permit which we thought we already had)

It started when the permit tech forgot to process this one specific permit with the other 6 permits (a whole saga in itself). They make you book 6 separate appointments in person to pull 6 separate permits for the same job…..

Since then it’s been musical chairs with a different person to talk to every time and all I’m asking for is a link to pay the city. Send me the link and I’ll pay it on the spot. This is an extremely simple task.

Yesterday I had to tag 14 people from a random online LADBS contact list of emails just to get someone to respond. Our permit tech is non existent. We need to ask ourselves why is the system so broken like this? Why is it so difficult to process a simple link to pay? Why does it take 3 and a half weeks to get an answer for something like that?

Building shouldn’t be this hard. Something as simple as paying a permit fee shouldn’t be this hard. Cities shouldn’t be this disorganized. With the technology we have, there’s no excuse. This is Los Angeles, one of the biggest cities in the world and this is how its city operates.

The best part: If you’re lucky enough to work for the city they all get a 22% raise over the next five years while you struggle to fill up your gas… I’m convinced most of these people would never survive a private sector job. Not even for a year.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@nithyavraman We would love your perspective on how ULA and one-sided rent control policies are impacting rental housing production in Los Angeles.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@mattbaran Sweet!

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@mattbaran HB residents hate any new construcion unless it’s a UFC gym or bar.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

About 75% of the Single Family ADU’s we build are for family members, not rentals.

It’s a split between older family members and young adults.

It’s one of the reasons I like specializing in ADU’s. I think multigenerational living is healthy for families.

[California YIMBY @cayimby]

High housing and childcare costs are pushing California families toward multigenerational living and ADUs.

Nearly 25% of LA listings now feature these setups.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@JMGregorchuk My biggest issue with Compton is the planning and building department. Victor (head inspector) is a nightmare to deal with.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

I go by what I see with my own eyes. I go all over LA (west side, south central, southbay, east LA, downtown, Hollywood) on a weekly basis. I don’t need a government agency to tell me what I’m seeing with my own eyes.

It’s drastically worse than 4/5 years ago. Not sure why some people are pretending it’s getting better.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

ADU above a garage in Long Beach, CA.

500 sq ft studio which will be used as a flex space.

#adu #accessorydwellingunit #longbeach

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@mnolangray My grandma lives in an Eichler home in Orange. Love those courtyards

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@AmusedCynic1982 @cayimby @ColinParent Ok sounds good man… lol

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

I love Texas. I love a lot of places. Not sure if that is supposed to be a bad thing,

I’m from so cal, born and raised all of my family is here, my business is here, otherwise I would have left a long time ago.

I definitely think Texas is ran better from a government perspective. They have there issue yes but here’s a current comparison between TX and CA:

California is running a manageable deficit. Governor Newsom’s proposed 2026-27 budget projects a small deficit of $2.9 billion.

Texas is running a surplus. Texas has record revenues, a $24 billion surplus, and a Rainy Day Fund at capacity.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

Unfortunately the technology isn’t there yet.

If we can run an entire society off of sustainable energy right now I’d be all for it, but that’s just not the reality. It won’t even be like that in the next 20 years.

We’re just paying a much higher price for oil from countries that have less environmental standards so we can pretend to feel good about it. I don’t get it…

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

California should have a thriving oil industry. We have the resources sitting right under us.

Instead, we import the majority of our crude from countries with far weaker environmental standards than ours. (Which the state seems to care so much about)

The oil consumption demand is still there. Yes, there has been a drop in consumption but roughly two-thirds of the demand reduction over the last 20 years is just from cars getting more efficient, not from EV’s

Energy independence drives down the cost of everything. Stopping oil production is just shooting ourselves in the foot.

Many Californians are ok overpaying for gas and everything else as long as we’re not drilling or refining oil here in California “for the environment”. It makes 0 sense to me.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@TMZ Who cares

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@JMGregorchuk I think real life examples of how to leverage debt is highly valuable. Maybe even some real estate deals you have done (borrowing money against an appreciated asset to buy more assets)

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

@realEstateTrent Yea it’s a shit show. Go look at what that money is spend on too. lol

Most of the idiot voters saw “mansion tax” and were brainwashed by progressives into thinking it was a good thing.

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

Let’s give him free meth pipes, some syringes and put him up in a tiny home for $500,000……. Just a normal guy “down on his luck due to hosing cost”

[Michael Oxford - AKA The Santa Cruz Mountain Goat @SCMountainGoat]

You get a notification on your phone, in the middle of the night, from your ring camera.

You look at your phone, and this is what you see.

You live in Sacramento, California

What are you doing?

[Cameron ADU @cmeredith714]

- Another scam
- Another waste of tax payer money
- Another “non profit” racket
- Another politician laughing in our face about it.

Let me take a wild guess that they overpay for these “free diapers” and I wonder if the “non profit” has connections to any politicians………

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

FREE DIAPERS COMING THIS SUMMER!