NEXT Crafted, Inc

10/17/2026

A Tahoe home is usually bought on faith. You walk a house built by someone else, for someone else, finished a decade ago, and you decide how much of its deferred maintenance you are willing to inherit.

We built The Villas @ South Shore against that. Fourteen residences, three stories each, with a private guest suite on the ground floor and a covered deck on the main floor — covered because a Tahoe deck has to earn its keep in more than one season. Materials and finishes were selected for mountain durability, by the people who built it.

The first building completes at the end of October. The first week of November, a staged home opens, and the question stops being what it will be like and becomes whether it is right for you.

Most mountain homes come with a project list. The Villas @ South Shore doesn't.

Private tours are available now by appointment. Greg Traxler, 530-288-6398 or [email protected].

10/14/2026

Own land that didn't pencil for a spec builder? Before you hire a fee builder, ask three questions:

How will I see progress? Who catches budget creep, and when? And who sells the homes when they're done?

That last one matters more than most landowners expect. When the build ends, you're either holding finished homes and hiring a broker on your own carry, or you already have a sales team in place.

At The Villas @ South Shore, NEXT Crafted builds and NEXT New Homes Group sells. One team, dirt to closing.

You've got the dirt. We bring the build. nextcrafted.com

10/12/2026

10/11/2026

We built two plans at The Villas @ South Shore, and the difference between them is one room.

The Summit is approximately 1,782 square feet, with three bedrooms and three and a half baths. The Shore is 2,019 square feet, with four bedrooms and three and a half baths. Both are three stories, both have a private guest suite on the ground floor, and both have a covered deck on the main floor, because a Tahoe deck has to earn its keep in more than one season.

So which one? It comes down to who's coming up with you. The fourth bedroom is the difference between hosting the weekend and squeezing people in.

Most mountain homes come with a project list. The Villas @ South Shore doesn't.

Greg Traxler gives private tours by appointment: 530-288-6398.

10/09/2026

7:30 registration - 9:00 start time

10/04/2026

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10/01/2026

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08/30/2026

There are two ways to buy a mountain home. You can buy the finished picture, or you can watch it get built.

Beginning Saturday, September 5, the first release at The Villas @ South Shore opens for private tours from 10 AM to 5 PM — by appointment, for agents and for the people already on the interest list. The homes will not be complete. Completion is October.

We scheduled it that way on purpose.

When a house is finished, every decision inside it has already been made and closed up behind drywall. You get to evaluate the result. Before that, you can see the framing, the systems, the material choices, and how the covered decks are actually built into a structure that has to hold up to a Tahoe winter. You get to evaluate the reasoning. For a lot of buyers, that is a far better basis for a decision at this price than a finished photograph.

Most mountain homes come with a project list. The Villas @ South Shore doesn't. That is the premise of this community — turnkey residences, designer-selected finishes built for mountain durability, and an STR-friendly HOA.

The first release is five homes across two plans:

The Summit — approximately 1,782 sq ft, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths. Three stories, private ground-floor guest suite, covered main-floor deck.

The Shore — 2,019 sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths. Same three-story configuration, with a fourth bedroom that changes what the house can do when people come.

Both plans include a one-car garage plus a dedicated exterior space. From $1,487,950.

Then there is the part of this you cannot build anywhere else: Whole Foods is one block away. Ski Run Marina and Riva Grill are a walk. So are Red Hut, Chipotle, Five Guys, and Panda Express. Heavenly Village and Target are minutes up Lake Tahoe Boulevard, and Heavenly itself is minutes by car. You arrive Friday night, you provision without getting back in the car, and the weekend starts.

Tours run by appointment beginning September 5. Appointments come from the interest list. If you are not on it, that is the first step.

[email protected] · 530-288-6398

07/29/2026

The roof is going on at one of the two homes we're building with HomeAid Sacramento.

These are part of HomeAid Sacramento's Caldor Fire Rebuild project — new homes for Grizzly Flats families who lost their primary residences in the 2021 Caldor Fire. HomeAid Sacramento is leading the effort alongside El Dorado County, and NEXT Crafted is one of several builders on it.

We've framed a lot of houses. A roof going on doesn't usually get a post. This one does, because up here it's the moment a lot stops being a lot and starts being a house again. It'll be closed in before the weather turns.

The photos are the update. If you want to understand how this project came together and how it's funded, HomeAid Sacramento's site has it: homeaidsac.org

Sacramento