Choosing Excellence: Build with a BABRM Member

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A Competitive Advantage

We have a mantra at BABRM: Do business with other members. Putting that mantra into practice gives BABRM members a competitive advantage with:

Knowledge

Members regularly participate in continuing education opportunities to help them achieve a higher standard of work and success.

Network

With more than 1,200 members, home building professionals have a vast network of member resources they can leverage for every project.

Expertise

When challenges arise or additional resources are needed, builders and building professionals can lean on member experts to solve problems, innovate, and improve outcomes for customers.

Advocacy

An improved business environment and more reasonable building regulations mean our members can spend their time doing what they do best: building homes.

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Your Trusted Source for Excellence

We’re Professional
We’re Committed
We believe in the
American housing
dream
We’re committed to community

We work together as peers and as competitors for the good of our community.
We stand behind our work with a commitment to excellence.
We invest time and money in ourselves and our workforce to continue learning how to build a better home.
We are committed to doing business with members who are suppliers and service providers that share our commitment to excellence.

We work diligently to improve the residential housing industry in our communities.
We continuously learn new and better techniques that make us better builders and employers.
We learn from our peers and support each other’s businesses by doing business with members whenever possible.
We believe that spending time today learning will pay dividends in the future, for us and for our employees.

We advocate for legislative initiatives that promote the American housing dream, including regulatory practices that come at the homeowner’s expense.
We support fiscally responsible and sustainable government efforts to promote housing.
We vet new technologies and products to find more cost-effective and more efficient ways of building homes.

We live in the communities where we work. We raise our families here. Community is always part of the mix.
We support educational programs and provide scholarships for students studying construction, building sciences and other construction industry trades in our local school and in college.
We volunteer for and raise funds for local non-profit organizations that make housing a priority for everyone in our community.

Searching for the Right Professional

When building a custom home, remodeling, or completing a home improvement project, one of the most important decisions is picking the right professional. And finding the right one can be much easier when you ask the right questions. Geared toward custom home builders, these questions will easily work for any building professional you might need for your project.

How long have you been building custom homes?
Do you have a portfolio of completed projects? May I see some of them in person?
What happens if I decide to make a change to my custom home?
Are you available to walk a lot with me to help me determine if it’s the perfect homesite?
Do you offer a builder warranty in case anything breaks, stops functioning or needs repair?
What licenses do you have? Are you insured?

How will we work together? How do you communicate with me during the process?
Do you use sub-contractors?
How do you calculate the cost to build my home? And when will I know the final cost?
Are you familiar with the style of home we want to build? Have you built that style before?
Home long does it typically take your team to build a custom home?
How are you different from other builders? How will I benefit from working with you?
Do you perform quality assurance inspections during construction?
Do you use green building practices in your building process? What can you do to make my home as energy efficient and environmentally friendly as possible?
What do your past clients say about working with you? Do you have testimonials, or better still, may I speak with them? Do you have testimonials from past clients I can view?
Is landscaping included, or is that additional? What is required by local ordinances?
What is your process for picking materials, fixtures and finishes for my custom home?

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Visit the BABRM Member Directory to search for the perfect professional from more than 1,200 local building professionals including builders, landscapers, architects, mortgage specialists, suppliers, and more.