
ADUs, Additions and New Construction
How an ADU is appraised: permit status first, a separate line beside the main house, then contributory value measured from local closed sales.
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How an ADU Is Appraised: Permits, Contributory Value and the Local Evidence
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- 01What counts as an ADU in California?
- 02Step one: permit status, before anything else
- 03Step two: where the unit goes in the report
- 04Step three: contributory value from local sales
- 05The local evidence, pocket by pocket
- 06When the ADU is not built yet
- 07The ADU lines of a comparable grid, left blank
- 08What to have ready
- 09Numbers that are not appraisals
- 10Next step
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