Why Suburban Builders
Truly personalized custom service for your custom home.
In business since 1998
Suburban Builders is one of Northern Virginia’s premier, and most established homebuilders. Since inception in 1998, Suburban has built over 100 custom and craftsman homes focusing in the Arlington, Falls Church, Great Falls and Northern Fairfax County.
We are a local, custom builder focused on personalized attentive and caring Service, Quality, Integrity and Value. Reliance on these principles has resulted in continued growth and a legion of satisfied clients. We build every home as if it was our own; we insist on the highest quality while keeping costs and budgets in mind.
Our smaller size allows us to be hands-on and more directly involved with each of our clients. We’ll work hand-in-hand with you through each of the steps in the building process; providing experience-based advice, making suggestions, analyzing expense alternatives and helping you to maximize value as you build your new home. This operational style promotes better communication and a more efficient, less expensive building experience. In short, although we are a custom builder, your experience is both personal and priced very competitively. When your new home is completed, our comprehensive warranty and follow-up service will further enhance your satisfaction and overall experience.
Suburban Builders’ concentration in a limited number of Northern Virginia markets has enabled us to develop extraordinary expertise in those markets including permitting and local codes and requirements and, importantly, to develop strong relationships with local government officials. Additionally, by focusing on this relatively small geographic area, we have been able to establish and maintain mutually beneficial long-standing relationships with high quality local subcontractors. Relationships that help guarantee quality, timely workmanship on every home we build. These factors help facilitate a smooth and timely construction process. Suburban Builders holds a Virginia Class A Contractor license and is fully insured and bonded.
Service Work after Construction
When your home has passed inspection and is complete, our staff will conduct a “walk thru” where we show and educate you and your family how to operate and maintain all of the installed systems, features, and appliances of the home. Every house varies in technical requirements, but today it is extremely important that not only the younger generation understands the capacity and convenience of technology advances in your home. From the day you hold the keys, the maintenance period begins and this enables you to point out any potential oversights or omissions during the initial months. We understand that ‘minor details’, may not be minor to you. Sometimes these smaller questions become apparent only after you’ve lived in the house. At Suburban Builders, we do not just drop off the keys, we believe our responsibility goes beyond the norm, and we make sure our home owners are fully satisfied on the move in date, and are set up for years to come. Our reputation is everything and much of our new business comes from referrals, so we want you to be 100% satisfied not only during construction, but for the years following.
Founder John Karanik graduated from Bucknell University with a degree in business management and prior to starting Suburban Builders worked for, and was trained under a national homebuilder where he supervised the construction of over 120 new homes. He and his family reside in Great Falls, VA. Building a home with Suburban Builders means you will work closely with the owner of the business; a thoroughly experienced, knowledgeable individual who can make things happen when you need it.