Welcome to Trust the Process Podcast.
We're going to pull back the curtain on new home construction,
the real estate market and the trends shaping it all.
Discover the stories, insights, and expertise behind the process of building an home.
Join us and let's build something great together.
Welcome to Trust the Process Podcast.
We're going to be talking about construction, real estate, and specifically new homes.
Nationally locally, have a lot to cover. I'm Christa, and I'm going to be posting with you guys.
I come with 15 years of real estate and marketing experience.
Really well versed in the market in terms of luxury.
I've also worked in entry-level product.
So understand both ends of that, differences by or profile timing, obviously the price.
Save the product is the specs that go into it.
So I'll be bringing that information the marketing and real estate perspective.
And joining me is Michael Johnson.
Michael comes to us with many hats and hats.
I'm sorry.
Is broker, he's builder, he's developer, and he's the owner of Trust Home Builders.
He has extensive knowledge and great success and a lot that we can learn from.
He will be in this podcast series, our resident expert.
He'll bring his insights and all of the pieces that we've seen in the
market and the trends and we really look forward to hearing from him.
Together we'll offer a fresh perspective and opportunity for authentic conversations about
the market about trends about design.
We'll have guest speakers that join us specifically what we're going to be talking about
is the new home industry building.
We're already having weekly meetings.
We're already discussing all of these things.
We thought it would be fun to invite you into that behind the scenes process.
See how we get from raw land to finished product where we're handing off the keys to
happy homeowner and how all of those pieces come together.
As you can imagine, it's not always a seamless process.
So there's a lot of album flow and highs and lows and we'll take you through the successes
of the journey and I'm sure there will be a lot of surprises.
No, always.
No, our coming.
Wouldn't be a construction of their surprises.
Yes.
So that will be part of it and we'll share all of that with you.
Would a transparent way?
Whether you're a homeowner, whether you're building your own home,
whether you're just curious about the industry, how things come together,
maybe you work in the industry, then you've joined us in the right place at the right time.
So come along with us on this journey, get settled in and we'll take you along for a little ride.
So I'd love to hear from you introduce yourself.
Tell us a little more about how you got here and what we can expect.
All right, put me on the hot spot.
Well, mentioned, we'll talk nationally.
We'll talk locally.
We're a Southern Nevada based home builder.
We're located in Las Vegas Metro areas that includes Las Vegas, North Las Vegas,
Henderson, and the surrounding areas.
I started off in the real estate industry as an agent.
Actually, I was just an enthusiast and I really loved real estate and I love design.
I loved homes and I've always had a soft spot in a little fiery passion for construction,
especially new home development.
Renovation a little bit here and there, but something about that ground up,
developing raw land into someone's dream home and also a great asset for them and a great vehicle
to middle class and to both creation and law formation.
It's just something that's been very passionate about.
So I had a couple of years as an agent and did very well as an agent and then became a broker.
Nopened up a small brokerage house here in Las Vegas and we service the Las Vegas Metro
Palton area and then that grew so well and so fast that I took that extra capital and they
started what would become trust home builders and started with just a few homes a year and now
this year in 2025 will deliver around 30 to 32 million dollars worth of new homes.
See, it's a marketable. Yes, so it's quite a ride and we have a small bit mighty team and
Christ is our main client liaison and marketing director and we have a people that work in the
field and people that work in the back of house and in permitting and things like that.
But ultimately I like to drive the ship in terms of where this is the company go.
We're kind of product to it. But out follow market trends and we're going to talk a little bit
about market trends as part of this podcast sprinkled into the drama and spicyness of
new home construction. So I hope that people can garner value from this podcast. I know that
new home construction and design and real estate and the market are passions of a lot of people.
There are a lot of enthusiasts. How we connected? That's right. I mean our friendship we go back.
Yeah, since I moved to Las Vegas, 2007. Right. So and we connected instantly over our interest for design
and our, you know, you know, these things, oh my gosh, look at this thing. Exactly.
That always shared and conspired on ideas and so the opportunity to now work for trust home builders.
I am the newest addition to the team and so excited to be here. Yeah, we're so glad to have you.
It's all come full circle and having watched the growth that you've experienced and now get to be
a part of it is that's great. But it is, you know, that passion for and the construction and the
design and all of those pieces are really what initially connected us. Right. And now when I was able
to grow the company to a size to absorb another employee and have an asset like you, it was been great.
And then we kind of rift a lot when we chat and we thought a lot of our chats cover some really
interesting topics. If you're into this topic, if you're, if you're overall interested in it,
I feel like there's a lot of little nuggets and a lot of little, little anecdotes and things that
kind of come up and another goal I have with this is to truly pull the curtain back. I want people to see
what it looks like to develop, to draw something from nothing and what are the challenges and
what are the numbers look like? I'm not afraid to show what the numbers look like and to really
get an idea of, okay, this is these are the headwinds that that an average developer or developer
like myself faces and although my scale is much smaller than a publicly traded company,
they're dealing with the same problems as just to scale. And I think it'll be something that
can hopefully shed some light on a topic, the housing crisis in this country, the topic that is
really front of mind for a lot of people. And if you're not affected by it, you already own your
worry about your kids, how are your kids going to own homes? Right. And a home ownership is something
that I'm very passionate about, something that's a thing that being kind of robbed from an entire
generation is really disheartening for me. And being one of the things we talk a lot about is that
entry-level product type and how it's pressing a lot of people out of that market and so that's
something that will be useful. Yeah, we really want to discuss and why that is, it's not just build
our great and we'll talk about trends in the market, we'll talk about headwinds to developers and what
we're up against. It's supply and demand economics on top of many other factors and we'll have an
entire episode on that, which I'm really excited to cover these topics. I think it's going to
lead me to. And I don't feel like we'll ever run out of content. There are so many things different
facets that we can pursue or that we can do a whole episode on it as we chronicle each of the
product projects. We'll be looking into one of the projects that we're starting on Serena State.
We're going to take you from day one all the way through it and you'll get to enjoy that journey with us.
I think it'll just be, I think I'm excited. That'll be wonderful. Yeah, thanks for joining us.
How do we can have some good laughs and share some good content? And hopefully we can all learn
something from us. Oh, so, yes, I'm sure we all will. So thank you and we will see you next time. Bye.