Testimonials
Three families, in their own words
Not a scrolling wall of five-star ratings. Three reviews, printed in full, from people who built or remodeled with us and wrote about it afterwards.
Why there are only three
Because three is how many we have in writing. We build a handful of houses a year, not a hundred, and we have never been organized about asking people to review us at the end of a job. That is a fair criticism and we are working on it.
What we would rather do is hand you phone numbers. Ask for references and you will get real ones, including people whose houses are a few years old now and have had time to go wrong. Those conversations tell you far more than any number of reviews.
Ask for the list
Every client we have built for is on it, not a curated three. Call and ask, and we will put you in touch directly rather than passing along a quote we chose ourselves.
Call (847) 380-8212In full
What they wrote
Unedited, including the typos. Names are withheld because none of the three was published with one.
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The quality of workmanship was exactly what we’d expected and any changes we wanted to make were hassle-free.
Skycrest Homes worked with us from procuring our lot to hooking us up w/ professionals to extras. They were very accommodating about our completion date, since we hadn’t sold our previous home when we contracted with them. Our new home was finished on the agreed upon date with no suprises! The quality of workmanship was exactly what we’d expected and any changes we wanted to make were hassle-free. We now have the home of our dreams!
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Not only did Skycrest build us a beautiful home, Matt and Dan made the process a very pleasant experience.
My husband and I chose Skycrest Homes to be the builder for our custom home. Not only did Skycrest build us a beautiful home, Matt and Dan made the process a very pleasant experience. We had excellent communication between all of us through phone calls, emails and on-site visits during the entire process. They were very responsive to our requests, suggestions and questions and upfront about the construction schedule, options and cost changes. I have limited mobility due to a disability and Matt and Dan ensured that I had access to the house during all phases of construction. We had a goal of building a house that was beautiful, but also accessible. They worked very closely with us to accomplish that goal. We are very happy with our new house. We highly recommend Skycrest Homes.
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They were extremely professional, fairly priced, honest and a pleasure to work with.
Skycrest homes did all the renovating on our home. They totally remodeled our kitchen, which included New cabinets, appliances, New wood floor, tile back splash, granite counters and sink and faucets. They put in New wood floors and carpeting, painted the interior of our home and updated electric and installed new fixtures. They built New closets, semi remodeled bathrooms and updated our foyer staircase by restaining and putting in iron balusters, which look beautiful. They were extremely professional, fairly priced, honest and a pleasure to work with. I would highly recommend this company. We are thrilled with our “new” house.
The pattern
Read them again and the same three things come up
Nobody wrote about the countertops. All three wrote about communication, about changes being easy to make, and about the date being the date. That is not a coincidence, and it is not what most people expect to care about when they start.
It is what you end up caring about eighteen months in, which is why we build the whole process around those three things rather than around the finish selections everyone shops for first.
- Clear, regular communication from start to finish
- Changes priced and approved before anybody swings a hammer
- A completion date set early and then actually held
The quality of workmanship was exactly what we’d expected and any changes we wanted to make were hassle-free.
Skycrest Homes client
Better than reviews
Three things you can check yourself
All of them are more work than reading this page, and all of them are worth more.
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Call the references
Ask for two or three and actually ring them. Ask what went wrong, because something did, and ask how it was handled. A builder who hands over the list without hesitating has already told you most of what you need to know.
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Walk a finished house
Photographs are chosen. A house you can stand in is not. We will arrange a visit to something we have built, and if the owners are willing you can ask them anything you like while you are there.
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Ask what the last house scored
Every home we build is tested by an independent rater and gets a HERS number. It is a figure we did not produce and cannot argue with, which makes it the one piece of proof on this page that does not depend on anybody's good opinion of us.
Built with us already?
We would genuinely like to hear it, good or otherwise. Nothing goes on this page without your say-so, and if something is still bothering you we would rather fix it than read about it.
Ask us for the phone numbers
Call and we will put you in touch with people we have built for, including ones whose houses are old enough to have been lived in properly.