We believe the best reasons are the answers we've given to our clients' FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).

New home builders are quality conscious, but errors, omissions and unacceptable shortcuts do occur. It's a fact that builders don't build new homes, trades people do. If all the trades are equally skilled and conscientious, everything is fine. However, sometimes someone can misread a plan, forget to follow up and correct an error or try to save some time and money through shortcuts. The problems can be covered up and you won't find out about it until after you have moved in. We're not rushed by construction schedules. We take the time to inspect carefully and to follow up.

Yes, they do, but their concerns are generally safety and local building code issues, not quality and craftsmanship. The City Inspector's job only requires them to visit your new home approximately four times. It's not their job to check to see walls have a bad "WOW" in it, the insulation is placed in the walls or the attic properly (or at all) or that those extra electrical outlets you wanted haven't been installed. That's our job!

Boy, there's a lot of "depends" in that guarantee, chances are you were dealing with a salesperson who isn't too familiar with the business end of a hammer and won't even see your New Home until the pre-possession walk-through. Even smaller builders still have to hire trades people and profit considerations sometimes mean that "good enough" rather than "perfect" is what you're going to get. From The Ground Up can help ensure that your builder pays off on that guarantee.

We'll be amazed and you can consider yourself very, very lucky. All the trades people on your site were extra skilled and conscientious. Everything in the thousands of steps involved went perfectly. In a perfect world, this is the way it should be. In reality, though, we've never seen it happen. In fact, our guarantee is that we'll find at least 30 quality an craftsmanship problems during construction of every home.

Actually, the obligation to identify problems and mistakes is the homeowner's responsibility. Job site supervisors organize the trades and check for material deliveries. If the errors go unidentified, you take the ownership and cost of these and other problems.

Reputable builders don't have anything to hide and in fact welcome our involvement. We often save them money by identifying problems when they are the least expensive to correct and before they are covered up.

We recommend a minimum of 10 on a builders plan and 15 or more on a custom home. Keep in mind that the number of inspections are based on your comfort level and budget.