You edit and sign. You stay the author.
Send photographs, the plan set and your walkthrough notes. Two days later you have a full numbered work-item narrative in the 10-168a format, every scope in the drawing set carrying an item, with photo and drawing numbers keyed throughout, plus a separate review showing where that scope will draw conditions and what to change before it is filed.
Work that appears in the drawing set but not in the narrative is treated as unreviewed. Site work, accessibility and building systems are the three that go missing most often, and they come back months later as a condition or a hold, usually while financing is closing.
The federal government’s own estimate of a single Part 2 response. Part 1 is 9 hours and Part 3 is 8.5. The weight of the whole application sits in one form.
About what a regular practice files. Often enough to cost real time, too rarely to stay fluent in a form that runs to forty hours.
Denials are rare. The cost lands instead as conditions, holds and resubmittals, and the review clock restarts with each one.
This is a drafting service, not a filing service, and not a second opinion offered as though it were expert judgment.
I am not a preservation consultant. That is precisely why the work is delivered as a first draft for your editing rather than as a submission. You are the author of record; nothing goes to a SHPO or to NPS with my name on it.
The draft does the mechanical half of the job: reconciling every scope in the drawing set against a numbered item, in the format and the order the form requires. The judgment half stays yours, and the risk review is written to be argued with.
My name is Anatoliy Milovskiy. I spent nineteen years inside one consumer-lending group, starting as a credit specialist and ending as its chief technology officer. Lending runs on paperwork: I built loan origination and debt-collection operations from scratch, answered for them before the regulator and the courts, and spent most of those years writing documents that other people executed against: specifications, procedures, regulatory filings. Loose wording cost real money, so I learned to write so that it could not.
Part 2 is the same shape of work: a long, unforgiving document where every scope on the drawings must appear, correctly worded, in the order and format the reviewer expects. Drafting to that standard is what I have practiced for two decades. The preservation judgment stays with you. That part I do not sell.
The first five projects are $500 because I want five consultants to judge the output on real buildings rather than on a sample. After those five the price is $2,000, which is still a fraction of what the item costs you in hours, and your fee is itself a qualified rehabilitation expenditure.
If the draft is not usable, you pay nothing. Not a partial refund and not a credit toward the next one.
A complete thirteen-item Part 2 narrative with its Standards risk review, prepared on a fictional composite property: an 1892 three-story masonry commercial building in a registered district, taken from twenty-three photographs, a plan set and a twenty-minute walkthrough. It runs to the same length and specificity as the real thing. Read it and decide.
Write for the sample →Write to anatoliy@htcdraft.com and I will send it the same day.