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craftsman custom home builders I'm here
with Joe Hepler one of the owners thanks
so much for having me out thank you yeah
so we're inside your showroom here on
Timberlake Road in Lynchburg and this is
something unique this is something
different from other home builders right
it is tell me why our whole process is
very different than most all custom home
builders generally when you go to see a
builder they're going to give you a
price on a house based on square footage
and they really don't take into
consideration what you want to put in
the house they just put in allowances
for everything that goes in for flooring
for cabinets for granite and then you go
choose what you want as the house moves
along well what very often happens is
the allowance was for carpet for your
flooring but you want all hardwood so
the price ticks up and picks up and
those cause the cost overruns that
everyone hears about in the house ended
up costing $20,000 more at the end but
our process we have this selection area
where everyone picks everything out that
goes in the house we do that before we
start the home so that when we give them
a price if it's two hundred and forty
two thousand five hundred dollars that's
what the price will be when it's
finished and no surprises no surprises
okay so you and Steve Cohen this
business you both have this is about
three years old this business but you
guys are no stranger to building homes
right you have extensive experience
doing this Steve is the young partner
okay he's only been doing this about 20
years but I'm doing it over 30 mm-hmm so
we've been in the building business
doing it with this process for over 30
years yes so you know what you're doing
for sure and what advice would you have
for people who you know may want to
build a home what would you say is like
maybe one of the first mistakes that
they make well the first mistake is not
getting involved with a builder very
very early on
find a lot of people buy a building lot
without having to build or look at it
and it turns out that lot might be very
very expensive to build their particular
home on just so one of the things that
we offer to customers long before
they've decided to have it built a home
is it will go out and look at a lot for
them without any charge and make sure
that it will work for what they want or
that it's not going to cost a small
fortune to get it ready we have about
fifteen floor plans of our own well
customize them any way that someone
wants but I would say out of all the
homes we build at least half our plans
that a customer brings to us and we'll
sit down and we'll use those plans or
modify those plans we have the
capability of drawing it up here and
they can do a little virtual walkthrough
they can see what their house is going
to look like but will work with whatever
plans that they have and you have a lot
of mortgage contacts that kind of help
with this process Rainey do as a we have
mortgage contacts and it depends on what
each person's situation is some people
have a large down payment that may be
the income might be tight maybe they
already own their land so they have
their down payment so we know which
lenders if when I kind of go towards
that particular type of loan yeah okay
so you have an upcoming seminar and we
want to tell people about so if they're
thinking about building a home they need
to come to this seminar right yes one of
the biggest reasons we do them as we
know there are so many people out there
that are interested in building a new
home but they have no idea where to
start and sometimes the process is so
scary they just don't ever get started
the seminar in Roanoke is going to be at
the Hyatt by the airport in Roanoke it's
on October 23rd from 7:00 to 9:00 and if
you can give us a call the day before
they let us know you're coming just so
we have enough space for everyone
oh that's wonderful okay and if they
can't make that they can go to your
website and find out more information
right yes that's Craftsman home builders
and calm all right Joe thank you so much
welcome thank you Natalie