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The agreement, spelled out.

You're ordering from Bircch LLC, doing business as CanIBuildThis.com. When you order, this page is the deal between us: what you get, what you don't, what each of us is responsible for, and how money moves. It's written to be read, not skimmed past — it's short, and every line in it matters.

Last updated 13 October 2026 · Bircch, CanIBuildThis.com · Massachusetts

How this agreement forms. You order by replying "agreed" to our quote, by sending an order email from inside your report, or by paying through our checkout and ticking the terms box — each of those is your agreement to these terms. The question form on this site is not an order and creates no agreement. If anything here is unclear, ask us before you order: tellme@canibuildthis.com.

What we sell, and what it costs

Every price below is our fee for our work. Fees a town or government office charges — application fees, recording fees, abutters lists, postage for legal notices — are never included, never marked up, and never estimated in print: you pay them at actual cost, with the receipt.

Service	What it is	Fee
ADU feasibility report	Your parcel, your zoning, your septic, every rule cited to its bylaw section, delivered by email. Includes a rendering of the ADU on your lot when it is a new building or an addition (not when it goes inside an existing building).	$395 flat
Addition feasibility report	How big and where an addition can go — setbacks, height, lot coverage and floor area for your lot, every rule cited, with a rendering of the proposed addition.	$395 flat
Lot / new construction feasibility report	Whether a lot can be built on at all, and what can go on it — before you buy or commit.	$650 flat
Relief research add-on	When your plan doesn't fit by right: which reliefs from the bylaw (variance or special permit) you would need, and what the board will look at. Research only — we do not file the application or attend the hearing.	$350

Builders, developers and other companies ordering 3 or more reports a month qualify for contract rates: ADU $350, addition $350, lot $575, relief research $300. See Pricing.

One thing we no longer take on: filing your permits for you. We research, we tell you what your property allows, and we research the relief a variance would need — but we're not a permit-filing service, and the permit itself stays in your hands or your contractor's. What we do instead is teach you the process, in plain English and for free, so you can walk it without guessing.

What you get, always

Research you can check. Every rule we quote carries its bylaw section, and the report names the bylaw version and the date we read it. Nothing is "trust us."
Honest unknowns. Anything we could not verify is marked unverified in the report, with what it would take to resolve it — never silently papered over.
Plain English. If a sentence needs a law degree to read, we've failed. Ask and we'll say it plainer, free.
A human review. Every report is reviewed and signed off by a person before it is delivered, and the report's last line says who and when. Always.
Your report, by email. No account, no login, no portal. The web version is yours to share with your builder, your family, your board.

What you don't get — read this one twice

Legal advice. We are not attorneys. Questions of title, disclosure, covenants, easements, or dispute go to your attorney.
A stamped professional opinion. No part of our work is a survey, an engineering opinion, a septic design, or an architect's drawing. Where you need one, the report says so and names the kind of licensed professional to hire.
A licensed inspection. A report reads the record; it does not open walls or dig test pits.
A guaranteed outcome. Boards and officials keep their discretion. We tell you what the written rules say and what usually happens — never what will happen.
A permanent answer. A report reflects the public record and the rules in force on its date. Bylaws change; records get corrected; the report is a snapshot, not a subscription.

What you're responsible for

Telling us the truth on the intake form — your legal name, your interest in the property (owner, buyer, agent), and the facts as you know them. Our work is only as good as what it starts from.
Having the right to order the work. If you're not the owner, you confirm the owner (or your client) knows and approves.
Reading the whole report — including the parts marked unverified and the limitations on the last page. They are part of the answer.
Confirming unverified items before spending money on them. If the report says a thing needs a surveyor, a soil evaluator, or the town's confirmation, that confirmation is yours to get (or to hire us to help get).
Your decisions and your money. The report informs the decision; it doesn't make it. Design, contracts, and construction spending are yours.
Municipal costs, at actual cost, as described above.

Paying, and getting your money back

Payment is due when you order, before research begins.
Cancel before we've started: full refund, no questions. Once research has begun, the fee is earned as the work is done and is not refundable — the work is the product. Research begins when we start reading your town's bylaw for your report; the free reply to an enquiry is not research and is never charged for.
Delivered digital work (reports) is not refundable — but if we got a fact wrong, tell us within 30 days and we correct the report free. Being wrong and leaving it wrong is not a thing we do.
Municipal fees we have already paid out on your behalf are never refundable — that money went to the town.

Privacy & security

Covered in full, in the same plain English, on the Privacy & Security page — what we collect, where it lives, who else sees it (almost nobody), and how to have it deleted. Short version: we never sell or share your information, this site sets no cookies and runs no trackers, and delivered reports are never published here.

Whose work it is

Your report is yours to use and share for the property and project it covers — send it to your builder, your lender, your family, the town. What stays ours is the machinery behind it: the report format, the rules engine, and the tools. You may not resell reports or strip them for a competing service. Contractors may share a client's report with that client — that's what it's for.

The limits of our liability

This is the clause printed on every report, word for word. It means what it says.

This report is professional research, not a guarantee. It is a plain-English reading of public records and the written rules in force on the date shown. It is not legal advice, not a survey, not a stamped engineering opinion, not a title examination, and not a licensed inspection. It does not bind any board or official.

Bircch is not liable for errors in the underlying public records, for rules that change after the date of this report, for site conditions that differ from the record, or for how any board or official exercises its discretion. Sources include state and municipal datasets that Bircch does not create or control and cannot correct.

Decisions and the money that follows them are the client’s. Anything marked unverified in this report is unresolved and must be confirmed before it is relied on. Before spending money on design, contracts or construction, confirm the findings with the town and with the licensed professionals the report names — a registered land surveyor, a soil evaluator, a wetland scientist, an engineer, an attorney.

Where Bircch is liable, its total liability is limited to the fee paid for this report. Nothing here limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited under Massachusetts law, including under M.G.L. c. 93A. Questions of title, disclosure or dispute go to the client’s attorney.

If we disagree

Talk to us first — a real person reads tellme@canibuildthis.com and most problems are a correction, a conversation, or a refund away from solved. Failing that, these terms are governed by Massachusetts law, and any dispute belongs in the courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

If these terms change

We'll change the date at the top. A change never applies backwards: the terms that were on this page when you ordered are the ones that govern your order.

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