Franchisee Stories - Fielding ADU Builders

Meet Our Owners

Allen C. – Sacramento, California

Allen spent 14 years as a commercial glazier before his knees told him to find a different chair at the table. He knew framing, knew schedules, and was tired of working for companies that bid low and made it up in change orders. He joined Fielding ADU Builders because the written-price-first policy matched how he already ran his own side jobs. Since opening, he has leaned hard into garage conversions in Natomas and Rosemont, where 1970s lots are wide enough to keep a car in the driveway and still add a unit. What changed for Allen? He no longer spends Friday nights chasing payments. The price was on paper before the first nail. That part never gets old for him.

Beatriz H. – Tucson, Arizona

Beatriz came from civil engineering, where she spent years stamping plans for projects she never got to see get built. She wanted to be on the other side of the fence, running the work instead of reviewing it. Fielding gave her a lane that fit: she handles the permit-heavy ADU projects in Tucson’s midtown historic districts, where setbacks, zoning overlays, and an occasional angry neighborhood association meeting are part of the job. Beatriz says the Garrison Code’s “do it by the book, the first time” is the only reason she sleeps at night. Her crews are background-checked and uniformed, which matters when you are building in a neighborhood where everyone knows everyone. She will tell you the best part of ownership is not the schedule. It is the return visit she almost never has to make.

Hector M. – San Antonio, Texas

Hector managed concrete crews for a decade, which means he has seen every corner any subcontractor ever tried to cut. He was done watching supervisors promise one thing and pour another. When he met the Garrison Partners team, the one-year written guarantee was the thing that stopped him cold. “Nobody in concrete thinks that way,” he told us. Now he runs Fielding ADU Builders in San Antonio, focused on prefab and modular platforms like Boxabl and Cover for homeowners who need to control costs. Hector is blunt about the trade: “The work is not hard. The discipline is hard.” His market includes fast-growing areas like Cibolo and Converse, where young families want a unit for aging parents. Ownership changed his pace. He still works long days, but the days are his.

Veronica D. – Boise, Idaho

Veronica sold commercial real estate for nearly 20 years before a builder client told her she was in the wrong business. She knew how to read a pro forma, but more than that, she knew how to sit across from a homeowner and tell them the truth about what something costs. That mattered more to us than any construction background. She now owns the Boise territory, where snow loads, frost-depth footings, and short building seasons separate serious builders from the rest. Veronica tends to favor conventional builds with James Hardie siding, which suits the neighborhoods she serves in Meridian and Eagle. She says the live-person phone coverage is what sold her. When a client calls at 8 p.m. worried about a crew arriving tomorrow, somebody answers. No voicemail. That is the standard her old industry never met.