Joe Robertson
Joe owns Shelter Solutions, a small efficiently run building company with over 40 years of Homebuilding experience with a massive variety of projects. They started building ADUs in 1998 when the Portland Zoning code was modified to allow for ADUs. Since that time, we have built more high quality ADUs in the Portland Metro area than any other builder.
Questions Asked and Answered
Approximately how many ADUs have you built, and in how many jurisdictions?
Do you do internal ADUs (conversions), or only detached and attached new construction ADUs?
Prior to your decade of ADU construction experience, you did tract homebuilding. What are some of the lessons of the production homebuilding process that you’ve brought into your ADU construction work?
You manage to come in a lower overall price than most builders in Portland. Can you help me understand why that is?
Tell us about your design/build process?
What are some elements of ADU construction that make it MORE challenging than conventional homebuilding?
Tell us about political advocacy you’ve done for ADUs as a builder over time.
Tell us about the impact that the 2010 SDC waiver had on your business.
Have you experienced an increase or decrease in new inquiries since COVID? What would you hypothesize the mid-term (next 2 years) will be of COVID on ADUs?
Have you made any significant changes to your business model in the last few years that you’d like to share?
How have your pre-designed ADUs been doing? Tell us about this.