All Forum Posts by: Mark Bohstedt

 Actually, my painter and tile contractor are licensed, and are required to be licensed in Arizona. 

I’m guessing they are not doing an off the shelf shower kit but custom cultured marble and a pre formed cultured marble shower pan?

 I do quite a few high end bathroom remodels and the bids I’ve received for cultured marble is higher than tile. It’s a good product but I seldom use it. 
Most of our bath remodels are removing a tub and building a walk in shower, typically about 3’ wide, 7’ long and 7’ tall. Nice glass doors and custom tile work New everything, usually have to move plumbing, Re Route vents, electrical, and occasionally beef up subfloors and change out windows. We use Shluter/Kerdi on every job over denzshield, no exceptions. I never want to return to fix a leak. 
   New cabinets, sinks, fixtures, and flooring, most are in the $35,000 to $50,000 range. I won’t even bid a simple bathroom remodel in the $5-7,000 range. It’s expensive to do everything right and just not enough profit to make it feasible for me. 
I fully understand a talented diy’er could probably get pretty far for that amount. 

  I Second Prescott, I built homes there for years. 
lots of tourists from Phoenix and Tucson from April through December.  Might be empty a few months in the dead of winter. Mild 4 seasons.  
I moved a few months ago but am back finishing a house for a client and staying in an STR, the market for short and mid term appears strong.

If I purchase the material, it’s on me, if the customer purchased it, I’m not going to replace it if it’s stolen, but I don’t leave anything laying around as an easy target for thieves. My tools are always my responsibility.

Besides building I have an aviation business also, most airline pilots I work with stay in hotels that their airline has deals worked out with. 
   There certainly could be a nitch market that I haven’t heard about though. 

 This is a great way to do it. I’ve built quite a few homes with split equity and the investor provides the funds. So far it has always been a win/win for both parties. 

This link might give you some ideas;

https://bransontreehouseadvent...

There’s a new str development being built just outside of Branson that is about 50% treehouses so it must a thing? (On 8x8” posts, not actually in trees.)