Jamie Hudson's (vineyardsnassauvalley) Blog

Pictoral evidence of how fun it is to work for this Delaware home builder.    

... to love your job. I won't pretend that working in this industry is always roses and sunshine. Let's be honest; we've been beaten up over the past few years. But I will say this - I worked for a national company whose focus centered on profit margins, especially when the market turned. I joine...

Schell Brothers Receives Unprecedented Seven National Awards December 4, 2009 - 9:41 am Schell Brothers, a leading Delaware home builder based in Rehoboth Beach, has received seven national awards, presented for excellence in the home building industry in 2009.  The company won an unparalleled fi...

...actually bypassed the Delaware beaches. We had a few flurries, which was still fun to see, but no accumulation. On the bright side (literally - today is very sunny), the nicer weather today hopefully will allow all of the local holiday parades to take place. At Schell Brothers, we're definitel...

In the interim since I last wrote, there's been a lot of exciting activity at Schell Brothers. Due to our company growth, we've opened up several new home communities. With growth comes change, and I'm now the community sales manager at Independence, the premier active adult community in Delaware...

We held our first pre-drywall orientations at The Vineyards this weekend. With our first building well underway, the Schell Brothers team thought this would be the perfect opportunity for our current homeowners to walk through their homes while they're still in framing. They re-visted their selec...

...on the activity at the Vineyards! Today is our block party, where the businesses along Nassau Commons Blvd joined together to raise awareness for our companies and, most importantly, to raise funds for a great cause: The Food Bank of Delaware. The sunshine has not stuck around as we hoped, but...

As part of the team-oriented culture at Schell Brothers, we provide a weekly, electronic update of sales activity. One of my co-workers included the thoughts below, and it made me stop and think just how grateful I am to work in this industry and, especially, to work for this builder. "We do what...

Sometimes when I'm in a rut -professionally or personally - I find comfort and direction in inspirational quotes. Certainly the words of our President at Schell Brothers, Chris Schell, have continued to motivate me in today's housing market and general economy. I recently came across the followin...

People often ask me why Schell Brothers is different, why I left one of the best-known national builders to work for a local company. The difference is our culture. It's in the way we work hard and play hard together. It's in the way Chris Schell inspires us with endless optimism, motivational th...