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Your Home Warranty Advocate!Buildforce provides home warranty support and services for realtors and homeowners with home warranties across North and South Carolina.Our sole purpose is to insure homeowner's warranty claims are addressed quickly and satisfactorily, by leveraging a multi-year working relationship with warranty client services with major home warranty providers. For a small fee, we interact directly with warranty call centers on behalf of the homeowner to expedite claims, resolve issues, insure that the claim is addressed quickly and satisfactorily.Our team has over 20 years of experience building and remodeling custom homes. Our unique knowledge base allows us to truly understand the homeowner’s problem, insure the contractor is fixing the right things, and we work with the warranty company to minimize repair costs, while insuring that the realtor and homeowner are completely satisfied.

Provide services in fine art photography, framed and matted prints, gift cards, landscape photography - My husband and I have been fortunate to travel the world and use our love of photography to capture images of some amazing places, people, architecture and landscapes. We are using akafoto to share some of that photography with others. We sell our work through local art galleries and gift shops.

The purpose of a Construction Warranty Manager is to work with Production Managers, Sub-Contractors, Superintendents and homeowners to insure that homes are constructed in compliance with company construction standards and any issues are corrected to the company’s and customer’s satisfaction prior to closing and during the warranty period.

Provided Home Interior/Exterior Design services including estimations, sales, construction, renovations, and staging for residential and commercial property. Worked closely with homeowners, suppliers and sub-contractors to provide high quality design and implementation services. Customer satisfaction ratings were a key driver in the success of this business.

Directed committed team of 13 in complete operation. Managing day-to-day operations, including sales, customer service, purchasing, together with personal project management of commercial building with $1M+ flooring contracts. WIP meetings with sales, project and installation manager, monitoring contract projects progress and resolving project issues. Handle financial and administrative activities, including budget creation and management and presentation of equipment, material orders and variance reports. Recruit, train, supervise, staff and coordinate all subcontract labor.

Outside sales representative for countertop, glass and metal fabrication manufacturers. Identifying clients needs, showcasing products including on-site demonstrations for digital template equipment and software, overcoming objections to secure and close the sale. Recommend quality engineering specific updates and changes to current software, optimizing product operations to facilitate additional sales.

Residential & Commercial Granite - Successful start-up business, from up-fit of building to first year sales of $400K, building to $1.75M in 4 years. Managed team of 18 in day-to-day business operations, sales, customer service, fabrication, scheduling and installation of custom granite/solid surface products. Cost estimates, contracts and invoices. Hired, trained, supervised, coached, motivated and managed staff. Sold Business in 2005

Turn-key construction custom home contractor, projects ranging from 2,400 to 8,300 square feet. Flood and mold restoration. Grade, foundation drain tile and moisture barrier corrections. Basic knowledge of all types of residential septic systems. Built spec homes for private investor, renovation and design projects, provided significant renovation support to local community after Hurricane Hugo, purchased homes, renovated and resold.