Questions we hear most.

Two Brothers Development LLC is an owner-operated builder based in Spokane Valley, Washington, run by co-owners Austin Folsom and Tysen Cheshire. We build custom homes, duplexes and small multifamily, light industrial buildings, and develop land across the Inland Northwest.

Spokane Valley, Spokane, Liberty Lake, Greenacres, and the surrounding Spokane County area in Washington, plus Newport, WA, and North Idaho including Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene.

Yes. Two Brothers Development is licensed in Washington and Idaho, so we can build on either side of the state line.

One of the owners. Austin or Tysen is on site through every phase. We keep our project count intentional so that stays true.

The Newport River House, a nearly 6,000 sq ft riverfront custom home in Newport, WA, which appraised above $1.8 million. We designed and built it start to finish.

It depends mostly on size, finish level, and the lot. Site work — utilities, septic, driveway, grading, and foundation conditions — is often the biggest variable. We give every client a detailed line-item budget during design, before construction starts, so you know what the house will cost and what's included.

We'll walk through the contract structure that fits your project in the first meeting. Either way, you get a line-item budget up front and can see how the project tracks against it in your client portal.

Every change is written up with its cost and schedule impact and approved by you before the work changes. Approved change orders appear in your portal alongside the budget.

You'll have a private login to our client portal showing your budget, schedule, change orders, documents, photos, and action items — the same system we use to run the job. See what the portal shows.

Yes, and most of our custom-home clients bring their own land. Send us the address or parcel number and we'll review zoning, utilities, septic or sewer, access, slope, and any HOA covenants before you pay for plans. How we review a lot.

Yes. Because we develop land ourselves, we can help you estimate site costs and spot problems before you make an offer.

Often, yes. Washington's middle-housing (HB 1110) and ADU (HB 1337) laws have opened many single-family lots to duplexes, additional units, and ADUs, but the details depend on your jurisdiction, lot size, and utilities. We'll tell you what your lot appears to allow. Duplexes and investor builds.

Yes. We review the covenants before design and turn them into a checklist — minimum square footage, exterior materials, setbacks, rooflines, drainage, and architectural review — so the plan is approved the first time.

Permit timing is set by the jurisdiction, and delays do happen. We build the permit path into the schedule from the start, submit complete packages to avoid avoidable review cycles, and keep your portal schedule updated so you always know where things stand.

No. You can bring your own plans, start from a stock plan that we modify, or have us coordinate a designer. We also have our own in-house duplex design.

Consultation and lot review, design and line-item budget, permitting, construction with an owner on site, and a room-by-room walkthrough before handoff.

Yes. We build duplexes and small multifamily projects for investors and hold rental property ourselves, so we design for construction cost, rentability, and long-term maintenance.

Yes. We're currently planning a 4-unit, roughly 7,000 sq ft light industrial building in Spokane Valley, with private office, bathroom, and mezzanine storage in each unit.

Within one business day. Use the Start a Project form or email austin@tbdbuilds.com or tysen@tbdbuilds.com.