John and I built our first house for ourselves. Then we sold it, bought land and built another. We know how to build homes. We also know what it is like to be a client. To be the one for whom the house is being built. On that first house, Woodhouse Post and Beam manufactured and erected the Timber Frame and the panel walls for the home. We were their client. We hire architects and engineers on every project. We are the client. We are the client of the guy who delivers the Port-O-Let. We are the clients of the banker, the attorney, and the plumber and electrician. We know how it feels to be a client. You’re either serviced well, and really feel that you matter to the service provider or supplier. Or you feel like you don’t matter and you should have taken your business elsewhere. We know this feeling. What it feels like to pay money to someone who doesn’t seem to value your business.  It’s a terrible feeling. It’s just plain wrong. Which is why, at Trilogy, John and I and every person who works here is committed to an extraordinary level of service. Our clients are the people for whom we design and build. To us, they are the most important people in our business lives. And we never forget that. How it feels to be a client. To us, the client really matters. And making the client happy is what makes our job fulfilling.

Today we wanted to focus our Team Trilogy series on founding partner, John Rath. John, along with his brother and sister, started Trilogy in 1998. John journeyed to Breckenridge, Colorado after leaving his life producing movies in New York City behind. His love for the Colorado Rocky Mountain Region began in 1983 with his first trip out west. John along with the rest of our Trilogy Team has achieved much success thanks in part to our collaboration with our clients, designers, vendors and sub-contractors. Together we have built homes and communities in which we can be proud of.

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