A Literary Life

By Kate Jonuska

There are homeowners who are content to leave all the decisions in someone else’s hands, choosing a prebuilt product off the rack then molding their lives to fit into that box. But then there are UBuildIt clients, owners who settle for nothing, actively grabbing the wheel of choice to drive themselves toward the home of their dreams – and keep their wallets fatter in the process.

“In my years of building custom homes, I’ve come across a lot of people that I felt could have built their own home, people who take an intense and direct interest in what we were doing as builders and contractors,” says Claude Comito, who owns UBuildIt Colorado Springs along with daughter Lauren  Perrault. For 27 years, he’s been a part of Nichols and Comito Custom Homes, and he also heads Comito Building and Design and dabbles in land development. While he’s giving up none of those passions, Comito feels this unique build-it-yourself enterprise fills a necessary real estate niche.

“There was a need where people could with support and guidance get the same results a high quality custom builder could, and yet have total control over the process and save quite a bit of money,” he explains. “UBuildIt is not for everybody, but on the other hand, we’ve found that anybody who expresses an interest in and desire to build their own home, and there are a lot of them, find this very appealing.”

CLICK HERE to read the full text of this article, which published in the Jan. 10, 2010 Springs Home & Style.