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Founded in 2002 by husband-andwife team Eric and Shelly Olsen, Olsen Custom Homes is committed to developing, designing, and building the highest quality, most innovative homes available today. Eric joins MHB to share some insights into the business:“ We currently build around 25 homes a year, but as we’ re growing quite substantially, I expect this number to increase over the next few years. We’ re located in Port Orange, Florida, where my wife and I were both born and raised. We’ ve been a big part of this community for a long time. We’ re general contractors, so we occasionally do commercial projects, but we specialize in luxury custom homes for the central Florida market.
“ Our homes tend to primarily be either second homes, vacation homes, or retirement homes. Our average buyer is probably in their late 50s to mid 60s, and the homes tend to be quite large, within the 4000 to 6000 square foot range, with an average value of around $ 1.4 million.
“ We pride ourselves on the way we communicate with our buyers and keep them in the loop throughout the process. We build extremely high-quality homes; each designed with our buyer in mind. We operate in a niche market where our buyer expects very specific things, so, we’ ve designed our features and our inclusions with this in mind. As a result, our basic house already includes many of the elements that they’ re looking for. Our team has done a great job of identifying those areas and perfecting that. Then you have buyers that will upgrade some, downgrade some, and venture their way through that process.
“ We have in-house designers, interior designers that do all the selections for our buyers. We also have a small showroom here, which we use to help our buyers make 66