Rio Vista, rebuilt from the inside out.

Rio Vista was platted in 1920 and built in two waves. The first left Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial houses on Ponce de Leon Drive and Cordova Road, with barrel tile, arched openings and plaster walls. The second filled the Rio Vista Isles finger streets after the war with ranches and split-levels, most of them sitting on wide lots under oaks that are now older than the mortgages. Owners here rarely tear these down. They gut them: new plan, new systems, same roofline, same address on the same canal.

The permitting authority here is Fort Lauderdale's Development Services Department, and since the city moved to digital intake, drawings and revisions travel through the LauderBuild portal instead of a counter. Broward adds a layer most homeowners never see: the Board of Rules and Appeals, which certifies Broward building departments and their inspectors, maintains the county's amendments to the Florida Building Code, and settles disputed interpretations. Broward also sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so every window, door and roof assembly you install needs an HVHZ product approval in the permit file.

The experience behind that is 20-plus years in South Florida and more than 150 remodels and additions delivered, every one permitted and inspected. On a street like North Rio Vista Boulevard that translates into practical things: a fixed written scope before demolition, a supervisor here every working day, dust barriers and floor protection that treat the finished half of the house as finished, and deliveries staged so the neighbors can still get out of their driveways. One accountable team runs the job from estimate to warranty. Licensed and insured, Lic. CGC1539072.