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don’ t really look back and think too much about the homes or the custom features, but it’ s the relationships and the people we’ ve served. It’ s a pretty amazing thing to have a job and create a company where people cry and give you hugs when you’ re done. My dad built a company like that and we’ re all trying our best to keep it going and keep the joyful tears flowing.
“ To be a successful custom homebuilder, I learned pretty quickly, it doesn’ t really matter what I think is important in a home. The only thing that matters is what the customer wants. Everyone has different priorities. Often people tend to want a lot of the same things, but we’ ve built homes with water features, indoor basketball courts, a 3rd story weather monitoring station, and lately quite a few golf simulators( which I love!).
“ There are certainly trends. Often, people seem to gravitate to the same styles of plans and looks all at the same time. We never try to steer our customers to a certain design or style. We just work hard to give them feedback on what other clients have done and liked. Also, we take close note when a past client says,“ I wish we hadn’ t done ____,” and then we keep that piece of information to help future clients.”
Service & transparency
Thanks to its dedicated team of carpenters, managers and design pros, the company can offer an unmatched level of service and transparency. As Jason affirms:“ Employing an in-house team helps us in lots of ways. Customers will often get designs drawn up externally and bring them to us only to find out that this‘ dream plan’ isn’ t quite in line with their‘ dream budget’. In our industry, sometimes there’ s not much cohesion between the design and planning side of things, which leads to lots of disappointment and wasted effort. So, we’ re very happy that we can rework any plan at no cost in order to offer our clients a‘ short cut’ to avoid those problems and heartache.” ■
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