Building Experience

• Mike Arnett is president of Arnett Construction Co., which does business as Lifestyle Homes, from Beaverton, Oregon. He is a second-generation homebuilder who began Lifestyle Homes in 1991 and incorporated in 1994.
  
  
• Mike Arnett is an Oregon licensed Certified Master Homebuilder (#CMB013).
  
  
• Building in various price and style ranges, Lifestyle Homes builds clients’ custom homes on their lots or its own lots, as well as feature homes in new subdivisions and on individual, in-fill lots.
  
  
• Mike Arnett is a leader at the local, state and national homebuilding association levels, working to raise home building standards, protect the industry’s viability and promote its charitable causes.  Mike also promotes builder education programs and state legislation that helps deliver higher quality contractors and housing for consumers.
  
  
• Lifestyle Homes is a Portland leader in producing High Performance Homes, which are more structurally sound, deliver healthier indoor air and are more energy efficient that standard, code-built homes.
  
  
• Lifestyle Homes' 2006 in-fill project in Bend, Oregon, near Mirror Pond on the Deschutes River, won a Building A Better Bend Award, issued by the Central Oregon Realtors Association, for outstanding new construction on existing property.
  
  
• Lifestyle Homes has featured several “active adult” home projects since 2000, show-casing customized single-level and 1 ½-story floor plans that address empty nesters’ needs.
  
  
• Lifestyle Homes, as partner in Vale Woods, LLC, developed an environmentally challenging Beaverton subdivision, which featured 16 home sites in a protected, natural wetlands area that protected old growth fir trees.
  
  
• Lifestyle Homes was a featured builder in the 1994 Street of Dreams at Marylhurst, in Lake Oswego.  Along with his father, they were the first father/son builders in the show’s long history with separate building companies.
  
  
• Mike Arnett served at Frankel & Company, Inc., Chicago, as a marketing Account Manager from 1987-1991, where he developed the communication processes he uses today that foster Responsive Homebuilding.
  
  
• Mike Arnett worked for his father’s company, Bear Construction Co., Beaverton, seasonally, as a Construction Supervisor from 1980-1985.
  
  
• Mike Arnett labored with DEW Construction Co., Forest Grove, as a Carpenter, seasonally, from 1980-1985.

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