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Article: Home sweet home: David Willan, Evergreen Homes LLC

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David Willan doesn't want his company ever to build a $250,000 house in the suburbs. That would defeat Evergreen Homes LLC`s purpose - to provide alternative financing for unconventional buyers to build homes in Northeast Ohios thriving urban neighborhoods. "(Although) they havent been good on some of their other (bills), they will pay their rent, and those are the people that are good candidates to buy a new house from us," says Willan, the company's president.

Evergreen Homes has grown from two employees in 2000 to 60 today while sales are estimated to hit $33 million this year, up from $20 million in 2005.

Smart Business spoke with Willan about how he meets the demands of an untapped ...

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