Spring Training: Homebuilding Super Star

Super Star Home Builder Reports to Spring Training      Veteran Kansas City home builder, Bickimer Homes, reported to spring training today.  A major leaguer in the professional homebuilding league for over 35 years, Bickimer hasn’t lost a step or the desire to compete for yet another banner year.  Opening Day is right around the...

Johnson County Home Builder Stricken By March Madness

        Thirty-five year old Bickimer Homes went in for their annual physical today.  Test results confirmed they have the heart of a lion and the strength of Hercules.  Unfortunately, their bracketology screening revealed Bickimer had contracted a severe case of March Madness.          Their physician, Dr. James Naismith, explained that while the...

Who Doesn’t Like A Parade? This Kansas City Homebuilder does!

The Kansas City Homebuilder Association’s Spring Parade of Homes starts April 28th and we can hardly wait for you to see our floats- err, homes.  And unlike the usual holiday parades that last half a day, this parade keeps on going until May 13th. Finally we can get out and enjoy some nice spring weather,...

On Becoming Zen Masters of Quality

Quality New Home Project Managers             Once a week the Bickimer Homes project managers meet to review construction issues in the field.  This meeting is mandatory but not for the reasons you might think.  Our people are constantly communicating with each other, our subcontractors and suppliers.  Our customers’ houses would get built with or without...

Amos & Freddy & Bickimer Homes

Amos Otis, Fred Patek, Tom and Mary Bickimer.  Four names you’ve never seen together, until now. Amos Otis was a star player with the Kansas City Royals when Tom was a boy. Amos patrolled centerfield with a royal blue ball glove and made playing the outfield for Kansas City look effortless.  Tom had a blue...

Independence Day

  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”   Independence Day.  You don’t hear that so much anymore; it’s the Fourth, or Fourth of July.  Almost like...

The Dog Days of Summer in Johnson County

Browned-out lawns, annual flowers incinerated, parents counting down the days to the start of the school year in Johnson County.  Yes sir, the dog days of summer have officially arrived.  Unofficially, many of us would argue that they began back in May-  too hot too soon! Bickimer Homes has new home job sites scattered across...