JMS Custom Homes, INC.

I highly recommend JMS Custom Homes, Inc. for home improvements. Our contractor, John Seitz, was great to work with! His pricing for labor and materials was always fair. John and his entire crew are all very talented and accommodating and can tackle any job. They listened to what we wanted and delivered! They really care about the customer being happy with the outcome. Our home is 42 years old and required lots of updating and repair. They did it all magnificently! The crown molding and recessed lighting in each room, along with the skim coating on the walls and ceilings made our home look brand new again! It is a pleasure to use our updated bathrooms and to spend time in the finished basement with it’s beautiful custom built-in book shelves and cabinets! Bravo - an excellent rating for JMS Custom Homes, Inc! If you need work done on your home, don’t hesitate - these are the guys to call!

I cannot give enough stars to JMS. I never write reviews but JMS is so deserving of this one...JMS has done several projects on 2 of our homes since 2017 after a co-worker recommended them. Since then, there have been occasions where I've hired a few other companies because I didn't want to wait to get on JMS' schedule. Every single time I hired someone else, I immediately regretted it. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. My husband and I have officially promised eachother we will never hire anyone else to do any work on our home other than JMS, even if it means waiting months to book with him. BOTTOM LINE: You will not regret working with JMS. They're affordable, do great work, and will make the construction experience stress free.  KEY POINTS: This is the ONLY company I trust to finish on time (or close to it), will not hand me a list of surprise costs at the end, will communicate all new expenses before the work is done, I can leave my house and trust that his entire crew will be respectful of my home when I'm gone, will not cause damage, and will not steal a thing. I don't have to micromanage and make sure they aren't cutting corners. If they find damage in the walls, they will let us know, they won't just cover it up with sheetrock or reuse old material (other companies have done this to us). PRICING: His prices are definitely fair. If you are getting a handful of estimates from companies, he will probably be in the middle-high range. But his estimates are so detailed, he covers all bases, and includes the cost of ALL items so you have less add ons in the end. If he renovates your bathroom, he will make sure he includes the cost of all lights in the ceiling and won't surprise you in the end and say "my estimate was really only referring to one light" then you have to pay for an extra 3 lights.  THE TEAM: The owner is John. He is fantastic, so nice, respectful, and extremely knowledgeable. We've renovated 2 houses so we've worked with alot of different companies over the years, John clearly knows more than the rest of them so we take comfort in that (don't be fooled by the fact that he is younger than many construction company owners). Regarding his crew, he has had the same guys working with him for years so they all are experienced. Alot of them are related to one another and all are close friends, so they hold eachother accountable for the work. We once worked with another company who had alot of turn over in their crew. The new guys didn't want to snitch on the veteran workers who were taking short cuts. We paid that price. It is the opposite experience with JMS, thank goodness. QUALITY OF WORK: It's great. We had a different contractor install a new sheetrock ceiling, but the floor joists were different levels so the ceiling sheetrock was crooked and looked wavy. He told us "you wanted a new ceiling, you didn't say it has to be straight." JMS does not work like that. He tells you "Your floor joists are different heights so your sheetrock will curve with the joists. We can straighten it out for X cost or leave it but this will be the outcome." He will make sure you have the opportunity to do the work right instead of just rushing to get it done and it looking bad in the end. His guys are knowledgeable and can identify issues, they won't just cover things up. JMS returned to our home to correct work performed by another company (again I was in a rush and hired someone else instead of waiting for JMS' schedule to open up--huge mistake. Crazy thing is that the other company was more expensive than JMS). The other company was working on our house for 7 weeks, I had to check the quality of their work and correct them, and I didn't trust the crew to be alone in our house. After JMS stepped in to finish the job and correct the work my stress was gone (seriously). We finally could breathe a sigh of relief knowing the work is getting done right. We could finally leave our house and not stress over the fact that we left a crew in our home without us. OWNER IS SO HONEST: JMS upgraded parts of our basement in our first home, reinforced a wall that had no support, and did some smaller projects around the house. They finished the work early. At one point, we changed the plan mid project (chose to use wood instead of metal to reinforce something). That new wood plan was less expensive than metal (I didn't know that at the time). At the end of the project, John (the owner) was honest with us that the change in material cost less than the original plan and actually charged us a few hundred dollars less. After he showed that type of honesty I was shocked. Here I am almost 5 years later and I am still talking about it. My mother is getting her kitchen redone and I told her to just call JMS, I don't even want her to take the risk trusting another company. I am absolutely certain that she will be happy. There is ZERO risk in working with JMS...who knows what she could end up with if she tries someone else.  You will not regret it if you work with them. Save your sanity and just hire them.  *Photo of basement columns built buy JMS.

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There was not one thing about him that disappointed me. From the minute we met him, to the minute he left the job today, I was impressed. I was impressed with his professionalism and work ethic. He left my house immaculately clean. He did an excellent job. I will definitely be using him for the next project. By keeping in constant contact, it really showed his professionalism.

No work was contracted only estimate given. The owner did provide contacts for work he did not do which was helpful.

The work was beautifully completed.  The room, originally with 7 1/2' ceilings, dark blue walls and old carpeting, now has a soaring ceiling, a gable with an additional window, freshly painted in 2 complementary shades of blue grey and wood floors.  The house looks so good from the outside that neighbors and dog walkers have complimented me on the improvements. These guys seem to work magic!!

John is the owner/boss and you can immediately see the respect his crew has for him.  They all get along and laughter is plentiful, which made the "chaos" in the house much more pleasant and bearable.  Throughout the remodel, John kept us fully informed as to challenges that arose, progress made, end date changes, etc.  He is very responsive to inquiries by phone or text, replying quickly.  John also made sure he found ways to save us money during the planning process and as he progressed through the project.  The whole team is also great at keeping the house clean as they work and they clean, sweep, vaccuum every night before they leave!
The detail work that this team does is extremely good.  The prep work on the walls was meticulous...none of the flaws that existed when we moved in could be seen when they were finished.  We have 4 ceiling beams in one section of the house that were poorly painted and had dozens of small nail heads showing.  They spackled and hand sanded every one of the nails before painting the beams and they look WONDERFUL when it was finished.  The wood work, hardwood, patterned tile flooring all ended up looking great and very professionally executed.