Custom Home Builders in Hillsdale County, Michigan
Strouss Construction builds custom homes and barndominiums on your own land across Hillsdale County, Michigan, including Hillsdale, Jonesville and Litchfield. The company has been building since 1949 and is now in its fourth generation of Strouss builders, working from a base in Concord about twenty minutes from Litchfield. A build covers the lot and site review, floor plans and blueprints, well and septic coordination, the foundation and framing, and complete interior and exterior finishing, with one crew carrying the house from the first drawing to the final walk through. Out here most parcels are rural, so the early questions are the well, the septic, the driveway approach and how the house sits on the grade. In Hillsdale County the building permit comes through the county building inspection office, and the well and septic approvals come through the tri county health agency that covers the county.
Building on your own land
We build on the customer's land rather than in a development, which means the site comes first. Where the house sits decides half of how it lives, so we walk the lot, look at the grade, the drainage and the view, and talk through the well and septic picture before anything is drawn. You do not need to own the land yet to start the conversation.
Post frame homes on rural parcels
Barndominiums and post frame homes are common on the rural parcels around Hillsdale County, often on ground split off a working farm. Whether a home can be post frame is set township by township, along with setbacks and minimum square footage, so we check the zoning on your specific parcel before we design anything.
Permits, wells and septic in Hillsdale County
The building permit comes through the Hillsdale County building inspection office. Well and septic approvals come through the tri county health agency that covers the county, and zoning runs through the township on acreage or the city in town. Three different offices, and we tell you which ones your parcel answers to and carry the paperwork ourselves.
One family, one crew, since 1949
Dan Strouss runs the company today, carrying on the standard set by his father Charles E. Strouss. You work directly with the family the whole way rather than a rotating cast, and the quote is written to the finished plans and goes in the contract before ground breaks, so the number means something.
What Customers Say
Mike & Laura Rogers
Strouss Construction built us a beautiful custom home that we have been in for two years now. The quality of work, attention to detail, and commitment to our needs have been fantastic. Dan Strouss and his team were an absolute joy to work with.
Leslea Little
When we were looking for a builder for a new home, we toured a couple of Strouss homes. The build quality and attention to detail was very impressive.
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Common Questions About New Homes & Barndominiums in Hillsdale
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