May 21, 2026 · 55 min · 11 segments
Ian Schmoyer didn’t originally plan to become a homebuilder. After years spent traveling the world surfing and figuring out his path, a turning point in his personal life pushed him toward…
You know, one thing we're doing with the company right now is we're, we're trying to evolve as a builder.
So we'll, we'll, we'll always be very heavy in the, in the entry space over, trying to move also into the move up and double move up and maybe even the move down and just evolve as a builder.
I think there's a I want to take the quality and everything that we do so wonderfully well and expand it into some different price points.
And I may even start a small custom home company, which we're talking about, which I would name after my children.
One thing is everybody thinks that You know, it's the builders making all this money and being greedy today.
But, you know, the government definitely isn't helping in the regulations and the costs associated with land and entitling land and all those things.
From the general public's perspective, I think there's this sort of confusion, right? You've got all of this chatter on one end of there's not enough houses in the U.S.
If there's not enough houses or people that want them, why aren't builders building them? I've got 10,000 thoughts on this, but you just hit on a very important one, right? Which is there could be an extra million, 10 million houses, but if people can't afford to buy them, then they're not going to say, what do you feel like is the number one sort of missing piece of information or gap there that the general public needs to know about? If there's
a shortage gap, why don't we just build them? Yeah, well, I don't know if there's a shortage gap.
You know, one thing we're doing with the company right now is we're, we're trying to evolve as a builder.
So we'll, we'll, we'll always be very heavy in the, in the entry space over, trying to move also into the move up and double move up and maybe even the move down and just evolve as a builder.
I think there's a I want to take the quality and everything that we do so wonderfully well and expand it into some different price points.
And I may even start a small custom home company, which we're talking about, which I would name after my children.
One thing is everybody thinks that You know, it's the builders making all this money and being greedy today.
But, you know, the government definitely isn't helping in the regulations and the costs associated with land and entitling land and all those things.
From the general public's perspective, I think there's this sort of confusion, right? You've got all of this chatter on one end of there's not enough houses in the U.S.
If there's not enough houses or people that want them, why aren't builders building them? I've got 10,000 thoughts on this, but you just hit on a very important one, right? Which is there could be an extra million, 10 million houses, but if people can't afford to buy them, then they're not going to say, what do you feel like is the number one sort of missing piece of information or gap there that the general public needs to know about? If there's
a shortage gap, why don't we just build them? Yeah, well, I don't know if there's a shortage gap.
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