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get is and help them maximize their budget through
our in house floor-plan design process.”
A more pronounced lean toward energy efficiency is
among the frequently repeated recent mandates from
customers, which has prompted the company to in-
clude variable-speed air conditioners, open-cell spray
foam insulation, tank-less water heaters and Energy
Star-rated windows in all its base-model houses. A new
community going up in Kerrville, in fact, will have solar
shingles on all homes.
And, in terms of corporate efficiency, Jenkins said that
while the company didn’t suffer the same depth of im-
pact that others felt during the Great Recession pe-
riod, it still was forced to learn lessons about pricing
and profit-management whose benefits are paying off
on today’s margins.
Toward that end, Anderson-Jenkins is part of the
23-member Texas Custom Builders Guild – a regional
