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About This Business

This company specializes in preconstruction services and new home construction. 

BBB Accredited Since: 8/26/2019

Years in Business: 37

Business Details

BBB File Opened:
8/9/2013
Business Started:
1/1/1988
Business Started Locally:
1/1/2014
Type of Entity:
Sole Proprietorship
Business Management:
Mr. Ben Nelson, President/Owner

Additional Contact Information

Principal Contacts
Mr. Ben Nelson, President/Owner
Customer Contacts
Mr. Ben Nelson, President/Owner
Fax numbers
Primary Fax: (423) 476-1323
Social Media
Facebook
Twitter

Licensing information

This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.

BBB records show a license number of 38594 for this business, issued by Department of Commerce & Insurance/TN. The expiration date of this license is 3/1/2026.

Department of Commerce & Insurance/TN

500 James Robertson Parkway, Davy Crockett Parkway

Nashville TN 37243

Additional Information

Other Resources
Department of Commerce & Insurance/TN
500 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville TN 37243
Phone Number: (615) 741-2241
https://verify.tn.gov/

Latest Reviews

  • G. C.

    "Nelson Custom Builders, Ben N*****; and we entered into a contract which included 9 pages of CAD drawings and written specifications, verbal review and promises made prior to signing-with promise to provide us everything that we wanted per our specifications which he verbally provided to us as he translated his contract to us since it was poorly written.Soon after signing we witnessed and addressed many significant issues: wrongful measured and cut materials resulting in rework; the use of bad lumber, bad joining, poorly built and joining rafters, damage to our newly poured cement with them withholding the information from us, wrongly pitched rooflines, damage to our neighbor's property that was not repaired professionally, poor work ethic and wasted time, none of 7 rooms are finished or usable (some not framed, others not sheetrocked or floored, with no usable electrical or plumbing to any of the new areas, several major job needs (demolishing bath, movement of a major wall, the installing of the elevator, the excavation of the driveway and replacement of a wider and better driveway, a slanted ramp (that began sloping only a month after construction), increased humidity causing mold in the existing structure-causing sickness, no screening of the screened deck, with basically only 1/3 of the work done although we have paid the builder 81% of the trajected project budget which was quoted as, $465,019." ... Read full review

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