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Designing and Building Your Dream Home

Tuesdays 1pm-2pm

If you are a homeowner, real estate investor, prospective homeowner or otherwise have an interest in all things building, Designing and Building Your Dream Home is for you!

Tune in on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. as the show’s host, K.T., keeps the conversation lively and entertaining. K.T. is the Director of Sales & Marketing for a well-known architectural product manufacturer.

Prior to this position, K.T. founded four industry-leading firms including two information technology firms; one specializing in the creation of web-based process management tools for Fortune 100 corporations and one that specialized in building predictive modeling applications for federal agencies. He also founded a real estate development firm that spearheaded the restoration and redevelopment of an historic seaport communities’ downtown waterfront, as well as organizing and founding a community bank.

K.T. currently serves on the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Architects Custom Residential Architects Network (AIA CRAN). Additionally, he serves as co-chair of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Leading Supplier’s Council, and as Trustee for both the NAHB Remodelers Council and the NAHB Custom Builders Committee.

ADU’s…What are they and why do I need one?!
Michele Grace Hottel, AIA I has been practicing Architecture with her namesake firm since 1994 and is licensed in the states of California and Arizona. Prior to that she worked in Architecture and Engineering firms before, during and after attending Cal Poly, Pomona for Architecture. Ms. Hottel has been a Commissioner and Subject Matter Expert for the California Architects Board, served three terms as an appointed City of La Mesa Planning Commissioner, and the past Chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Custom Residential Architecture Network (CRAN) for the AIA San Diego and Palomar Chapters and was the Chair of the Committee for AIA California's Inaugural Housing Forum for attainable housing. She is currently on the AIA National CRAN Advisory Group (AG). One can read her blog and listen to her podcast, "I've never met a woman architect before..." a blog about my life... , the trials and tribulations, as one could say, of being a woman, a mother, a wife, a volunteer, a public servant, and last but not least, an architect.
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Why this show is needed? What you will gain by listening?
On the debut episode of Designing and Building Your Dream Home your host KT answers the questions- Why this show is needed? What you will gain by listening? If you are a homeowner, real estate investor, prospective homeowner or otherwise have an interest in all things building, Designing and Building Your Dream Home is for you!