Refer a client who wants to build, without handing off the relationship
FOR REALTORS
When your client is thinking about a custom home or a lot purchase, Mike does the heavy lifting and sends them back to you. Your commission, your client, your reputation: protected.
The fear that keeps agents from referring a builder
Most agents have been burned once — you introduce a client to a builder, and somewhere between the lot and the punch list, the builder becomes the relationship and you become a footnote. So you hesitate, and a client who wanted to build ends up buying something they’ll renovate anyway. Mike works the opposite way. He builds houses; he doesn’t poach clients. You stay the agent of record, you stay in the loop, and the client comes back to you.
What a referral to Mike protects
Your client stays yours.
Referring a client to a builder shouldn't mean handing off the relationship. Mike works alongside you, keeps you in the loop through the build, and treats the client as yours — because they are. You made the introduction; you keep the relationship.
Your introduction is documented and protected.
When you bring Mike a client, your introduction is registered and time-stamped, and the first registration on file settles any question of who introduced the client. It isn't a handshake you have to trust — it's on record, and your standing holds for a full year from that first registration.
You're pointing a client at a safe name.
Referring a builder puts your reputation on the line. Mike is a safe place to send someone — veteran-owned, ROC 323268, a structural engineering degree, and more than 24 years building (Peak One, est. 2002) across North Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and Sedona. When it goes well, you're the agent who knew exactly the right person.
The partnership program.
Mike runs a straightforward, fair agent partnership program and shares the specifics with agents directly. Reach out and he’ll walk you through how it works.
The Feasibility Fast Pass
A Free Pre-Contract Service —Seven Steps We Take Before Your Client Signs Anything
MLS Lot Review
Review MLS listings ahead of time —price history, days on market, comparable sales in the community & other comparable lots.
Average Market Study
Determine average home prices in the community to avoid overbuilding and protect your client’s investment.
Aerial Analysis
Aerial review of the lot for shape, drainage, neighboring properties, access, and obvious constraints.
Community Research
Research HOA/ARC design standards, building envelope, setbacks, height limits, and material requirements.
Physical Lot Walk
Walk the lot with the client —assess cross slope, usable pad size, views, access, and neighboring homes.
High-Level Budget
Client leaves with a clear recommendation: move forward with confidence, or protect their capital.
Go / No-Go Decision
Client leaves with a clear recommendation: move forward with confidence, or protect their capital.
When should you bring Mike into the conversation?
Build vs. Buy
Your client is weighing building versus buying-and-renovating.
Lot Selection
Your client is eyeing a lot and needs to know if it's actually buildable before they write the offer.
Teardown
You've got a listing with teardown-and-rebuild potential and want to show a buyer what's possible.
Out-of-State
Your out-of-state client is relocating to Scottsdale and wants to build — you keep the referral even though the build is here.
MEET MIKE CHRISTENSEN
More than two decades building custom homes in the desert
— and the person you'll actually work with.
Most of the people Mike Christensen builds for don’t live in Arizona yet — they’re planning a second home, a place to retire, or the house they’ve pictured for years, and they’re doing it from another state.
He has spent his career building custom homes across North Scottsdale and Paradise Valley, in exclusive communities like Desert Mountain, Rio Verde Estancia, and DC Ranch. What sets him apart isn’t the finish work — it’s making a build feel close and in your control when you can’t drive past the site on a Saturday.
Before any of it, he served twenty years in the Army. That’s where the straight answers come from, and the belief that trust is earned before it’s asked for — the same reason he and his wife, Gina, built a foundation for veterans and their families.
When you build with Mike, you work with Mike. Not a sales team, not a project number.