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Why Aspen Creek Partners?
With so many builders in Naperville, what makes Aspen
Creek Partners particularly qualified to build your custom home? We think
our firm offers several distinct advantages to our clients that are not
duplicated by any other builder in Naperville.
- An Experienced Naperville Custom Builder
. Aspen Creek Partners
was one of the first true custom residential design-build firms to
specialize in downtown Naperville projects when the current
redevelopment trend started in 2001. Both partners have many years
experience in managing a wide variety of complex projects to successful
conclusions. We enjoy an excellent relationship with officials and
inspectors in the City of Naperville Building Department. This
experience and reputation help insure that your project will proceed
smoothly, on time and on budget.
- A True "Custom" Builder
. While there many builders serving the
Naperville market, many of them are "semi-custom" builders who typically
build several homes a year working from a relatively small number of
pre-designed plans. Aspen Creek Partners is a true custom builder that
works only with one of a kind custom designs. As such, we understand and
welcome the complexities associated with new and unique designs. Because
we also design custom homes, we look forward to working with our
construction-only clients on designing additional custom details that
they may have in mind but which have not yet been reflected in the
construction documents.
- Licensed Architect On Construction Team.
When you engage Aspen
Creek Partners to build your custom home, you will receive the services
of an experienced and well known local architect, Cory Smith, as part of
the construction management team. The direct involvement of a licensed
architect in the construction process helps insure that your home will
be competently and professionally built in accordance with
specifications provided by your architect and engineer. Cory’s
participation on the team, particularly at the time the project is bid,
helps insure that your bid is reliable, and will minimize the cost and
delay that you may incur if your architect is called upon to interpret
plans for a less experienced general contractor.
- Partners On Site Daily
. Both partners in the firm, Herb Getz and
Cory Smith, live in Naperville and at least one of them (and typically
both) will be on your job site every morning to insure that work is
proceeding according to plan. Our clients deal directly with firm
partners and not with a construction superintendent or foreman. We are
available to both our clients and our subcontractors on very short
notice to address questions. Addressing subcontractor questions in real
time avoids the costs and delays associated with rework. We encourage
our clients to meet with us on site as often as possible to review the
progress of the work and to insure that the expectations you had from
the plans are actually being realized in the field.
- A Real Subcontractor "Team".
During the past six years, Aspen
Creek Partners has assembled a real "team" of professional
subcontractors to work on our projects, many of whom have been working
with each other for many years. Because most of our subcontractors know
each other personally and have worked on many projects together, we get
excellent cooperation and coordination between the trades. This
relationship with and among the subcontractors provides Aspen Creek
Partners with an ability to schedule trades on a very time-effective
basis, keeping projects on schedule.
- A Contractor You Can Trust - "No Surprises."
We know from
experience that many prospective clients find the process of designing
and building a custom home to be confusing and sometimes intimidating.
Others have heard horror stories from friends or neighbors about cost
overruns, delays, unexpected change orders and rude subcontractors, just
to name a few concerns. Questions that custom home buyers typically have
include … Why does my home cost so much? Will my project cost more than
my budget? What’s really included in the price? How much is my builder
really making on this job? Can I really trust my builder to work to keep
costs under control? These are key questions that we feel you should
discuss with any builder that you might consider for your project.
One very important goal of Aspen Creek Partners is to
take the mystery out of the entire home building process, and to make
our clients feel very comfortable with all aspects of their project. We
are committed to taking whatever time is necessary to answer every
question you have about your project. This is particularly important at
the time you receive your bid. We will spend time with you before and
after we bid your project to make certain that we all understand exactly
what’s included, what’s not and what "allowances" have been established
for any piece of the project that has not been firmly decided at the
time of our bid. One motto that we live by is "no surprises."
We feel very strongly that this comfort level has to
start with a sense by the client that their contractor is being
completely open and honest with them at all times. Our firm is somewhat
unusual in this regard in that we work on an "open book" basis.
This means that our clients have full access to all our bids, pricing
information, budgets and cost reports relating to their project,
including full disclosure of our charges and fees, at every stage of the
project. By using the open book approach to pricing your custom
residence project, you will have the opportunity to understand exactly
why your home costs what it costs. Importantly, you will never need to
wonder about whether your builder is adding to their profits by cutting
corners on your home or receiving undisclosed commissions from
subcontractors or suppliers.
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