JOY ADU BACKYARD HOMES:
RENTAL INCOME, GUEST HOUSE, OR EXTRA SUITE
JOY TO THE HOME, A REAL STATE AND DESIGN PSYCHOLOGY SERVICE COMPANY SINCE 2003, EXPANDS INTO THE DESIGN AND BUILD OF ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS
Choose from a patent-pending small or tiny home that gets carried one wall at a time into your backyard or a Super-Adobe Home built onsite. (A small house is usually 800 or more square feet. A tiny house can be as little as 80 sq feet.)
Hello from designer and builder Jeanette Joy Fisher!
We're excited to help ease California’s housing crisis with environmentally friendly homes.
Joy ADUs differ from other ADU builders in the following ways:
No upfront costs! We meet with you in person at your home. We already know before we come out that your property qualifies for an ADU. We can tell by understanding the new building laws and public satellite maps.
YOU MAY NOT NEED AN ELECTRICAL Panel Upgrade! I see other ADU builders charging $7,500 for an electrical panel upgrade when California laws require solar electric panels on an ADU. Plus, I upgraded my 90-year-old electrical panel for a spa. My new panel including 220 cost $5,000 in 2022, not $7,500. Supporting the environment, California Law mandates Solar Panels for ADUs and no natural gas.
With JOY ADU, you will not need a crane or to move utility lines. We prebuild your walls and roof offsite. I designed these homes to be carried in through tight small sideyards.
Our architect Evan Fisher, AIA graduated from Harvard. His last home in California sold for $24,000 Million. I taught Design Psychology and help with floorplans for your site and make sure your design is human-scale. There is a difference between our designs and cookie-cutter box homes. (Yes, Evan is my son. I brag about my super.)
Sponsor Savings: Because I tweeted my life away for years after a daughter and my husband died, I'm a social media influencer who gets sponsors like Sherwin Williams. We also support Habitat for Humanity and find bargain-priced building materials. We film JOY TV shows to broadcast on Roku and more. If you want to participate in our show, you can promote your business.
When only the best building team will do for your property, contact me!
CALIFORNIA HOUSING CRISIS? YES, NO?
Near 100,000 Californians face homelessness every single day.
California needs from 1.5 to 2 million NEW housing units to catch up with the demand.
Realtors report the median California home price exceeds $800,000.
People need housing, and homeowners need income to offset mortgage payments.
Seniors can borrow low-interest money without payments to build a backyard home for additional income.
Backyard homes, called Accessory Dwelling Units, ADUs, don’t have the exact Building Permit requirements as traditional homes. California laws require cities to expedite ADU building permits with affordable building permit fees.
Not all ADU builders tell the whole truth. Some even send sales professionals to your home to close you. And, many companies charge extra for building permits when California lowered them to about $500.
WHY DO YOU WANT AN ADU?
First, I object to the term Granny Flat. Most grandmothers I know are the ones building the ADUs. Here's my list of benefits of having an ADU in your backyard:
- Extra income (typically over $1,000 a month above the new payment increase)
- Create extra space for adult children and grandchildren
- Create a Guest Suite for friends and extended family
- Create a Business Office
- Provide housing to help solve the housing crisis
- Increase your home value — (In OC, a $60,000 ADU added $250,000 value to the appraisal.)
CALIFORNIA ADU LAW HISTORY
2017
California legalized backyard homes
California reduced building fees to stimulate housing
California provided Under Prop 13 no additional increase to your home tax basis for an existing home, only the new improvement value.
2020
More ADU-friendly laws were passed to remove barriers to keep costs down and expedite the building procedure.
WHY DO YOU WANT A JOY ADU? JOY ADUs Save money SIX Ways!
- We don’t expect to make $100,000 on each home! We have no stockholders to support.
- You save money because we mass-produce parts of your home offsite with our assembly line construction crew.
- NO CRANES Required.
- No Overhead Utility lines need moving.
- NO SALES TAX. Beware of wheelies—tiny homes built on trailers. Classified as RVs or trailers, wheelies get taxed over 8% in California like any vehicle. PLUS, wheelies DEPRECIATE whereas ADUS INCREASE property value.
- You have the opportunity to save more money by recycling housing parts purchased from Habitat for Humanity—often new products hand-selected by our design team. You make the final decision on all options.
BESIDES SAVING MONEY, JOY ADU GIVES YOU ADDITIONAL BENEFITS UNAVAILABLE FROM OTHER BUILDERS.
√ Design Psychology, a science of interior and exterior home conceptions, creates spaces for serenity, not expensive fashion trends.
√ Get a HUMAN Scale home. We use Design Psychology Principles to create homes for happiness.
√ Avoid loud building noises for weeks on end. We build walls and roofs offsite and erect the home in a few days.
√ Support the Environment!
We build as green as possible. Smaller homes use less electricity. New homes are better insulated than drafty old homes. Plus, by California law, our homes come with Solar. Remember that no natural gas or propane is allowed by California codes to help protect our atmosphere.
COMING SOON TO ROKU ON JOYTV!
JOY ADU SHOW: MAKE MONEY FROM DIRT!
You may also save money by having your ADU project filmed. We ask sponsors to donate building materials.
We LOVE Sherwin Williams. They have the best quality paint and my personal Design Psychology favorite CUSTOM color: A TINT OF HONEY. Check out our upcoming show on JOYTVnetwork. We're painting the entire project with this amazing color. A Tint of Honey passed all our trail tests with the highest praise! And, the satin finish absolutely glows in the moonlight.
If your community housing codes permit short-term rentals, you can make even more money and also reserve your ADU for your personal needs.
Check out AirBnB nightly rentals. In my area, one-bedroom Guest Houses rent for $200 a night. Typical AirBnBs book 15 nights a month. That's $3,000. Did you know that AirBnBs charge more than the nightly rate? They add on cleaning charges.