Selection Guide
Where are you in your build?
01
You have land. No builder yet.
This is where a handshake becomes a contract you cannot see through.
02
You have a bid. You have not signed.
The number feels like the price. It is not.
03
You are about to sign.
Once you sign, the thin allowance is yours.
04
You are starting, or you are already building.
A week you are too busy to look is where the small ones start.
This is the largest check most people write. Everyone tries to save where they can. Then work gets busy, or you are not on site, and the discipline slips. A draw goes out without a check. A selection waits a week. The schedule moves a few days. Those small misses compound. At the end, the budget is soft and nobody can point to the week it happened.
A custom build is not a purchase. It is 8 to 18 months of decisions against a contract. The builder is paid to deliver their scope. You are paying for the house. Commercial owners already hire someone who sits only on their side of that line. I bring that role to a custom home, a teardown, or a remodel.
The largest check
About Me
My Story
After my own custom builds, I learned the hard way that the number on the bid is not the price you pay. A thin allowance, a draw that pays ahead of the work, a change order that was already in the contract — those show up when nobody independent is reading the paper.
I bring a PMP and years of hands-on construction experience to that read. The certification is the discipline: scope, schedule, and cost tracked against a baseline, not a verbal update. The builds are the scar. I have sat where you are sitting, with the largest check I had ever written and no one on my side of the contract.
I built Anchor Build Management so that second set of eyes is there the first time. I do not replace the builder. I work for you. When something shifts, you see why before the money moves.
Your Build, Protected
I am on your side of the contract. Not the builder’s.
I am direct. I will tell you when an allowance is thin, when a draw pays ahead of the work, and when a change order was already in the scope. I will not soften the number to keep the peace.
I do not run the jobsite. I do not pick your finishes. I do not replace the builder. I keep the paper current when you are busy, out of state, or too close to the project to see the small misses compounding.
If you want someone who has sat in your seat, and will put the number on the page before the money moves, that is the work.