Have a client in Alabama.

[Rick Hoge]

Looking for a high end builder in Anniston, Alabama.

The home will be similar to this:

http://www.hogegroup.com/GDM%20LOT%207%20GAIL.htm

Anyone have any suggestions?

[JMS BUILDERS]

We can send a crew down on Monday to do a site assessment and look at any workable plans that exist. :) Lots that have been deleted.

[Allan Edwards]

Rick

I could not get your link to open. I have never heard of that place, but then I know very little about Alabama. Is finding contractors part of your role on this job? I wonder if there is a local HBA or even other local architects you could talk to.

One part of my business model is to restrict my work to an area 10-15 minutes from my office. I have been asked before to bid homes a bit out of town, maybe an hour or so away, and I've always turned them down. In this market, maybe I need to reconsider? If I could get a job large enough for a full or close to full time project manager, maybe it would be worth considering. But not Alabama :)

[David Meiland]

Allan... you need to think big... buy a plane!

[Dick Seibert]

Allan... you need to think big... buy a plane!

Yeah, I've been telling him that for years, I don't know how he builds anything without an airplane, he could write off a little Lear Jet and the IRS would hardly notice, especially if he built Rick's house in Alabama.

I drove all the way down to San Jose Wednesday to negotiate with the county's fire marshal and geologist, as I drove down I saw a commercial building going up with three concrete pumpers with booms up and a dozen ready mix trucks lined up pouring into their hoppers, when I got down to the county offices I see a big yellow sticker on the door: "Closed for Veterans Day", a hundred mile round trip wasted, got to learn to use those danged new fangled telephones one of these days.

Someone asked Bugsy Siegal once why he only robbed banks, his answer: "Because that's where the money is.", same here, you've got to go where the money is.

[parkwest]

I couldn't get the link to work either. I've built projects all over this country. I'll take a look at the project for you.

Besides, my brother has been on me to get a lear jet for years. lol

[Rick Hoge]

I'm suprised the link doesn't work. If the link works to my website perhaps you can find it by looking for this house.

Anniston, Al is about half way between Birmingham and Atlanta. It's about 100,000 population.

[Allan Edwards]

How about it Rick, are you seeing buyers downsize?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1258...cle-outset-box

Looks like Wieland is about 1/3 the company they were at the peak.

Two years ago, closely held Wieland was building 1,800 houses a year in posh subdivisions in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, selling for an average of $650,000 apiece. Today, the company is closing on just 600 homes annually, according to Wieland. It has slashed staff to 330 employees from 1,100.

[Rick Hoge]

No, Just the opposite.

[Rick Hoge]

"Looks like Wieland is about 1/3 the company they were at the peak"

That doesn't supprise me.

When I lived in Atlanta Wieland was sort of like a lower quality producer of David Weekly type homes.

When I was in The Woodlands Weekly produced a better product IMO than Wieland did on the East Coast.

[Allan Edwards]

When I was in The Woodlands Weekly produced a better product IMO than Wieland did on the East Coast.

Is that the Woodlands in Houston? I did not know you designed homes there. I have never built there, just too far from my office and home.

[J.Buesking]

I've done work for Wieland. It wasn't to organized and pretty much was a free for all with little to no supervision over the subs.