They shared the same passion, the same frustrations, and the same belief that homebuilding should still mean something. Over the years, they'd become friends often meeting over breakfast, trading stories, and comparing notes on how the industry could do better. Built America Magazine | West In Montgomery County, two builders worked just four miles apart.
But one Thursday morning, something shifted.
The conversation turned from what if to why not. And just like that, a new chapter began. “We just clicked,” says Chastity White. “It was like looking in the mirror. We had the same values, the same frustrations with the industry, and the same belief that building homes should still mean something.” The man across the table? Matthew Reibenstein, founder of Royal Design Build. The company she was leading? StoryBuilt Homes. That breakfast? The beginning of a collaboration that would shift the energy of Houston’s custom homebuilding scene. It was never just about consolidation. It was about two teams, each humbly doing the right thing in their own corners of the industry, coming together to build something greater than themselves. Something lasting, something that matters.
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