Meet the Owner

I have spent most of my professional life around homes, construction, real estate, and the people who make this industry what it is.

 

Luxury Homes of Texas is a family business with roots dating back to 1995. Over the years, the company has grown and changed, but the things that matter most to me have stayed pretty simple: relationships matter, your word matters, and if you are going to put your name on something, it should be something you are proud of.

 

This business has been part of my life and my family’s life for decades. It has given me the opportunity to work with great clients, talented trades, design professionals, and an industry community that has shaped a large part of my career.

 

After more than thirty years, I still enjoy the same part of the work that drew me in from the beginning—sitting down with a client, hearing what they want to create, and figuring out how to make it happen.

 

For me, custom building has never meant taking someone else’s plan and making a few changes. It means starting with the client, the property, and the vision, then working through the details together as the home takes shape.

 

That is probably the part of the process I enjoy most.

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Ideas develop. Priorities change. Better solutions emerge. Sometimes a client starts with one thought and ends up with something even better because we were willing to explore it together. I enjoy those conversations. I like hearing, “What if we…” and then working through how to make it happen.

 

My career has taken me through custom home building, remodeling, real estate, project management, education, speaking, and industry leadership. I do not really see those as separate careers. They have all influenced the way I think, the way I communicate, and the way I lead a project today.

 

The Dallas Builders Association has been a major part of that journey. I have spent years serving on committees, councils, the Board, and the Executive Committee, and I was honored to be named an Honored Life Director. Most recently, I was formally installed as President of the Dallas Builders Association.That role means a lot to me because this is an industry and a community I have been part of for a long time. I have learned from it, built relationships through it, and had the opportunity to give something back to it.

 

My involvement has also extended beyond the local level. I have served in national education leadership with NAHB, on the Remodelers Board of Trustees, and in roles that have allowed me to advocate for builders, remodelers, and the residential construction industry. Those experiences have given me a broader view of the challenges our industry faces and a deeper appreciation for the responsibility we have to keep improving it.

 

A large part of my professional life has also grown into speaking and teaching. I work with builders, remodelers, project managers, sales professionals, associations, and leadership teams across the country. If someone searches my name, they are probably going to find that side of my career too.

 

To me, it all connects.

 

Teaching forces me to keep learning. It makes me challenge my own thinking and understand not only how something works, but why. The things I talk about from a stage—planning, communication, accountability, leadership, decision-making—are the same things that matter when we are building a home.

 

I have always believed that if I expect the people around me to keep improving, I should expect the same thing from myself. That is one reason professional education has been such an important part of my career. Today, I hold 14 of the 15 professional designations offered by the National Association of Home Builders, more than any other builder.

 

I am proud of that, but the letters have never been the point.

 

The point is learning something that makes me better at the next project.

 

After all these years, I still like walking onto a property and imagining what it could become. ​I still enjoy meeting a client who has been thinking about a home for years.

​I still enjoy solving the problems, working through the details, and seeing something that started as an idea become real.

 

That is what keeps this business interesting to me.It is also why I still love doing it.

 

We are not simply building a house for our clients. We are building it with them.