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Our friendship built the foundation. Our standards build the homes.

Minder and Ratermann Homes was started by two friends with a common goal, to build homes the right way while developing lasting relationships
Our company is built on what actually matters: relationships, honesty, detail, and clear communication. Minder & Ratermann Homes was started by two friends with a common goal — to build homes the right way while developing lasting relationships

Our company is built on what actually matters: relationships, honesty, detail, and clear communication.

11/05/2026

Want to break ground by March? Design starts now.

November to January: plans, soils and site engineering, permits.
Before you sign: a fixed price with allowances in dollars, and selections planned with you and your designer.

Minder and Ratermann Homes is scheduling Q1 2027 custom home and remodel starts in Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties. Send us a message to get on the calendar.

11/01/2026

Same house. Two contracts. Two different final bills.

Fixed price: one number, agreed before we start. Overruns on the agreed scope are ours, not yours.
Cost plus: actual cost plus a fee. Open books, no ceiling. It fits when scope is unknown, like a remodel.

Why we prefer fixed: it makes us finish the plans, engineering, and dollar allowances before you sign, not on your invoice.

The catch: a fixed price with thin allowances is cost plus with extra steps. Read the allowances first.

Minder and Ratermann Homes, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties. Which one did your last builder use?

10/29/2026

Seven questions to ask any builder. Including us.

1. How is the price built: fixed, cost plus, or in between?
2. Are allowances stated in dollars, and based on what?
3. What triggers a change order, and is it signed before the work?
4. How often will I hear from you, and in what form?
5. Who is on my site every day, and who do I call?
6. What is a realistic timeline for my lot, and what moves it?
7. Can I talk to your last three clients?

Vague answers build vague houses. Minder and Ratermann Homes, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties. Which one would you ask first?

10/27/2026

Three costs most clients find after they sign.

1. Getting water and sewer to the house. Tap fees on public utilities, or a well and an engineered septic system when there are none. Upstate clay can lead to engineered.
2. The driveway and the dirt. Grading, gravel, culvert, and paving. On a sloped lot this is rarely in the number a buyer has in their head.
3. The paper. Survey, soils report, engineering, permits, impact fees, builder's risk insurance.

If a builder's number leaves these out, it is not the number.

Minder and Ratermann Homes builds custom homes in Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties. Which of these would have caught you off guard?

10/08/2026

How we build a house, part five.

Permit goes in and we manage it. Insurance in place, trades booked, long lead items ordered before the permit even clears, so nobody is waiting on windows in month eight.

Then we sit down for a preconstruction meeting and hand you a written schedule with the dependencies named. We do not sell completion dates that depend on things outside our control. We give ranges, tell you what drives them, and tell you the truth when something moves.

Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties. Part six next week: construction, ten to twelve months, four milestones.

10/06/2026

How we build a house, part four.

The number. An exact price in writing, built from real trade quotes, not a per square foot guess.

Every allowance spelled out in dollars. Payment schedule and change order process explained before you sign anything. If something changes later, it gets priced and signed before the work happens, so there is nothing to argue about after.

This is the step people are most nervous about. It should be the one they feel best about.

Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties. Part five Thursday.

10/04/2026

How we build a house, part three.

Plans get finalized for your lot. Foundation gets locked in. Then the part most people are either excited about or dreading: selections.

Flooring, cabinets, tile, hardware, fixtures. We work closely with the interior designer and the client to land the look they want while keeping the budget in mind, and we take the selections in order so nobody is picking twenty things at once.

On this one: stained birch cabinets run to the ceiling, ch*****ne bronze hardware and fixtures, and a high end LVP throughout. Every one of those was priced in writing before we broke ground.

Greenville County. Part four Tuesday.

10/01/2026

How we build a house, part two.

This is the part nobody sees. Survey, soils, the utility path, a septic evaluation if you are not on sewer. We start it while the plans are still moving, not after, because county review is usually what sets the pace on a build.

We submit early and we chase it. You will hear from us when there is news. You will not be the one calling the county.

Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties. Part three Sunday.

09/29/2026

How we build a house, part one.

It starts with a walk. Before plans, before pricing, we meet you on the land and look at it together. Where the driveway comes in, which way the porch should face, where the water goes when it rains hard. Half the decisions that matter get made standing in the dirt.

That walk is free. If it makes sense to keep going, we set up a preconstruction agreement and start the real planning. Every dollar of that fee comes off your construction contract, so you are paying for a plan, not a meeting.

Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties. Part two Thursday.

09/22/2026

The best transformations take time. Trust the process!

Address

Greenville, SC

Telephone

+18646670999

Website

http://www.mnrhomes.com/

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