We would appreciate the opportunity to present a fee proposal and conceptual estimate for construction of your new home in Colorado. Our company has been building custom homes for clients in high alpine of Colorado since 1996. Our experience with projects such as yours would be a great benefit to you in this venture. Since 2006, all of our new custom homes have been qualified in the Energy Star for New Homes program, and our clients enjoy the benefits of increased comfort, energy efficiency, durability, and indoor air quality. Our homes all score below 65 for the Home Energy Rating System (HERS), meaning the homes are at least 35% more efficient than a code-built home built in the same year. Our most recent custom home completion at 542 Doris Drive scored HERS 58 and will save our clients approximately $1300 in energy in the first year. Building Energy Star is easy for us, and does not present an additional cost to our clients. Kodiak Enterprises leads the competition in Summit County Colorado’s Energy Star New Homes. For more information, please see http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=new_homes.hm_index Of course, energy efficiency isn’t our only skill as custom home builders. We are very proud of our finish quality in all disciplines, including finish carpentry, tile, stone, timber, steel, and logs. We’re capable of any detail you desire. Efficiency meets luxury with Kodiak Enterprises. How do we build Energy Star New Homes at no additional cost to our clients? Primarily, this is because of the work we perform with our own staff. Our technicians are certified blow-in blanket insulation installers, and their regular work includes air-sealing and insulation retrofit, and ventilation work, among other skills, for homes that we provide energy audits and energy improvements in the Home Performance with Energy Star program with Comfort by Kodiak. For more information, please see www.comfortbykodiak.com and http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=hpwes_profiles.showSplash Since our staff includes full-time home performance technicians with varied construction skills, our custom home clients enjoy the benefit of upgraded insulation, ductwork, and ventilation without a subcontractor’s markup, saving 30 to 40% on these critical work items. In addition, Kodiak Enterprises is able to fulfill other work items with our own forces, including carpentry pick-up, hardware installation, general labor, temporary heating, winter conditions and snow removal, punch list and project closeout, among other items, to the maximum benefit of our clients, and without a subcontractor’s markup. Our fully-insured, skilled technicians save our clients time and money on every project. In addition to our in-the-field staff, Kodiak Enterprises also employs a full-time office administrator / bookkeeper, who also performs as project coordinator for our custom home projects, arranging appointments for our clients, maintaining records of material selections, preparing concise, accurate billings, and supporting the project manager. This additional office staff presents yet another benefit of selecting Kodiak Enterprises as your builder. We especially appreciate that you contact us before design of your new home commences, since our most successful projects have enjoyed the benefit of our early involvement. Included in our fee to construct your new home is a series of preconstruction services to assure that your budget will be confirmed during design. We offer estimate revisions at every stage of design, and often work with your architect or residential designer to detail the construction methods that match the estimate. If a comparison of cost for different methods is necessary, we fulfill this need also. Please inquire about our preconstruction services we offer with every contract. Few custom home builders in the area offer a warranty as concise and complete as our company does. We offer warranties for our new homes ranging from 1 to 5 years, depending on our fee. Our company also offers maintenance services for many of the homes we have constructed locally. Please inquire about a sample warranty for our new custom homes. We prepare conceptual estimates based on our design concept conversation with you and historical cost data. This by-line-item conceptual estimate provides a more reliable method than simple square foot costing, and also relates work items that are considered to be included and not included. It is a good starting point for discussion, and preparing a cost plus fee contract. We are also amenable to a fixed-price construction contract once the design has been completed. Please inquire about our standard agreement for a cost-plus-fee with a guaranteed maximum cost arrangement. If you would like to visit any of our completed homes, we would enjoy the opportunity to show our work. Please also visit our websites at www.kodiak-inc.com and www.comfortbykodiak.com.