Dennis Celsor

I met Dennis with Built Green when I first moved to Austin in 2015 and wanted to build a house. Coming from the east coast, I had much to learn about the regional differences. Dennis made those easy for me to understand. I wanted an energy efficient home that would provide me with lower utility bills once it was built. I got that and more! Using Built Green, I was able to have a larger house with more upgrades for less. As a single woman, I was able to build my home with the help of the Built Green process. I felt confident in doing so. I sold my house in 2019 and made $104,000 above my costs. I am now looking for another lot to do it again.

Dennis, I am still loving my Built Green home and it’s saving lots of money on electric bills not to mention it’s always comfortable. Last February during our power outages our home never got below 58 degrees when it was 10 degrees outside.

The most valuable benefit of working with Built Green was use of their vendor/contractor network. Being new to the area left me at a great loss in finding the best pricing for supplies and finding reliable, quality sub-contractors. How much did I save? My gut feel is at least a 20% advantage over hiring a traditional builder.

With the many opportunities for saving money, having equity in our house, having the green features we wanted, upgrading where we wanted to (my wife is a devotee of HGTV) and total control of the project, I was very interested in working with Built Green to build our dream home. My big question was: could we do this from a time and skills perspective? Attending Builders University with Dennis and having both the Built Green team and their written system to answer all my questions enabled me to succeed.