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Scope boundary
What is in, what is deferred, and what is excluded. Every condition found once the building is open forces this question again, and each answer is written down rather than settled in conversation.
One project · active
The project record while the job is still open.
Homer Reno LLC was formed on 2026-06-15. South Shore, Chicago is its first and current project. There is no completed portfolio behind this page, and none is implied.
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South Shore, Chicago · residential rehabilitation
Active. Status below reflects the project record, not a finished result.
Active rehabilitation
A full residential rehabilitation in South Shore, Chicago. Homer Reno is the general contractor. The owner is an entity controlled by Segun Zubair, the company's sole managing member, so this is an owner project rather than third-party client work, and it is labelled that way everywhere it appears.
The reason to publish it now, unfinished, is that the operating record exists while the work is open. A finished before-and-after photograph proves very little. A scope with line items, a permit record, and a draw history show how the job is actually being controlled.
- Stage
- Active rehabilitation
- Location
- South Shore, Chicago
- Homer Reno role
- General contractor
- Ownership
- Owner and general contractor
- Scope line items
- 99
- Permit records tracked
- 6
- Draws recorded
- 7
- Field updates logged
- 13
- Risks tracked
- 13
Counts come from the project workbook and change as the job proceeds. Costs, contract values, and dates are not published here.
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General scope
Described at the level of category, because line items belong in the agreement rather than on a website.
Structure and framing repair where existing conditions require it, with a design professional involved wherever the work goes beyond repair in kind.
Envelope: roof, exterior wall, masonry, windows and doors, and the drainage and site conditions that decide whether the envelope stays dry.
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems taken to a permitted, inspected condition rather than patched around.
Interior rebuild: layout, insulation and drywall, floors, kitchen and baths, finish carpentry, paint, and fixtures.
Exterior finish and site work, sequenced after the envelope so completed work is not reopened.
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The categories of decision being managed
What the job actually consists of, once the demolition photographs stop being interesting.
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Sequencing
Which trade goes when, what an inspection blocks, and which item has to be ordered now to avoid stopping the job in six weeks.
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Permits and inspections
Which work is permitted, what each inspection requires to pass, and where the drawings and the field condition disagree.
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Changed conditions
What was found, what it affects, what the options cost, and which one was chosen. Written the day it is found, priced before it proceeds.
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Draw substantiation
What progress a draw represents, tied to scope line items, with the supporting records assembled at the time rather than reconstructed later.
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Open risk
The list of things that could still move cost or schedule, kept current, so a risk that becomes real is not also a surprise.
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How the project is documented
The same record is what a lender, a partner, or a future buyer's inspector would want to see.
A scope of work broken into line items, with progress recorded against those lines rather than against a percentage guess.
A permit record covering each permitted item and the inspections attached to it.
A field update log written from site, so what happened on a given day is recorded while it is still accurate.
A draw history where each request points at the work it represents.
A risk register that stays open, listing the conditions that could still move cost or schedule.
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Project notes
The street address is not published. The project is described at neighbourhood level on this site.
This is an owner project, disclosed as such. It is not a client reference and no client is being represented as a satisfied customer.
Photography is pending. Every image slot on this site states what belongs in it rather than filling the space with stock photography.
Figures shown above are counts from the project record. No cost, contract value, return, or completion date is published, and none should be inferred.
Your project would get the same record.
The documentation described on this page is not a special case for an owner project. It is how a job is run.
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