For Builders & Architects
Be a Name You Can Give Without Thinking Twice
Every buyer asks their builder who should do the backyard. Whoever you name reflects on you. State48 is the landscape design-build partner you hand over and stop worrying about.
Why this page exists
The landscape guy you name is the last thing your client remembers about the build.
You spend two years getting a house right. Then the buyer asks who should do the backyard, and whatever name comes out of your mouth is now attached to you. If that crew is slow, or sloppy, or goes quiet for three weeks, your client does not remember that it was a referral. They remember that you sent them.
That risk is the reason most builders keep giving out the same two names they have used for a decade, even when the work has drifted. The bar for a new name is not "are they good at landscape." The bar is "will this cost me anything."
State48 is built to clear that bar. Wes Reinke and Logan Antelman own the company and both of them are on the jobs. Design and construction happen under one roof and one contract, so there is nobody to point at when something slips. We work luxury residential in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Arcadia, and the rest of the Valley, and the hard lots, boulders and grade and real drainage, are the ones we want.
What You Get
Six reasons this referral is safe
Nothing here is a favor to us. Every one of them is about what happens to your name after you hand it over.
A name you can hand over
Every buyer asks their builder who should do the backyard. Whoever you name reflects on you long after you hand over the keys. We answer the phone, we show up, and we finish. That is the whole pitch.
We read the architecture first
We are not looking to sub in and drop a stock plan on your lot. We start from the drawings, the materials, and the lines you already set, then extend them outside. Design collaboration, not subcontracting.
Design and build under one roof
One team designs it, one team builds it, one contract. Your client is not chasing a designer, a pool guy, a hardscape crew, and an electrician who all blame each other.
High desert lots are the specialty
Boulders, grade changes, drainage that has to work in a monsoon, retaining that has to look like it grew there. The lots other crews price high and build badly are the ones we want.
Cold plunge and sauna in house
Almost nobody in this market designs and builds these. If your buyer asks for a plunge, a sauna, or a full wellness zone tied into the pool, we do it on the same contract as the rest of the yard.
Licensed, bonded, insured
AZ ROC #344120. Licensed, bonded, and fully insured, with the paperwork your office needs on file before we set foot on a job.
The Offer
Let us walk one of your active sites. Free, no strings.
Wes and Logan will come out to a job you have going right now and flag the outdoor coordination issues before they turn into change orders. You keep the notes either way.
You pick a live job
One of your active sites. Anything from a lot that just got dirt moved to a house that is a month from drywall.
Wes and Logan walk it
Both owners, on site, an hour or so. No sales team, no clipboard pitch, no plan to corner your client.
You get the flags
Grade, drainage, sleeves, utility routing, pool tie-ins, anything outside that is going to cost real money to fix once the house is closed in.
Then you decide
Free, no strings. Use the notes and never call us again if that is how it shakes out. That is a fine outcome for us.
Coordination
Get us in before the drywall goes up.
Outdoor problems are cheap at framing and expensive at closeout. Once the concrete is poured and the house is closed in, every fix outside is a jackhammer, a change order, and a conversation with your client you did not want to have. Here is what we are looking at when we walk a job early.
For Architects
Your design should not stop at the back door.
You set the massing, the sight lines, and the material palette, and then the yard gets bid out to whoever the client found, and the whole thing gets undercut by a hardscape pattern nobody looked at twice.
We start from your drawings. We read what the house is trying to do and extend it outside, then bring the plan back to you before it goes to construction. This is design collaboration, not subcontracting.
The Work
Judge us on the lots, not the pitch
Estate grounds, motor courts, pools, fire, and lighting on real Valley properties. If it looks like the caliber you hand your buyers, put us on a site walk.
Estate Grounds
Modern Desert Architectural Grounds
Estate Grounds · Hardscape
Adobe Gated Entry & Brick Motor Court
Pools & Spas · Estate Grounds
Pueblo Estate Pool & Grounds
Estate Grounds
European Stone Estate & Landscape Lighting
Fire Features · Outdoor Living
Grand Stone Outdoor Fireplace
Hardscape · Estate Grounds
Gated Paver Motor Court
FAQ
What builders and architects ask us first
What is the free site walk, exactly?
You name one of your active sites, and Wes Reinke and Logan Antelman, both owners, come walk it with you for about an hour. We flag the outdoor coordination issues we can see: finish grade, drainage and roof runoff, sleeves that need to go in before concrete, utility stubs for fire and kitchen and lighting, pool tie-ins, retaining heights. You get the notes. There is no fee, no proposal attached, and no obligation to use us on that job or any other. If the walk saves you a change order and you never call us again, we are still fine with that trade.
When should you be involved in one of our projects?
Before the drywall goes up, and ideally before the pad is set. Almost every expensive outdoor problem we get called into is a decision that was cheap at framing and costly at closeout. Grade set to the house instead of the yard, no sleeves under the drive, no gas stub where the outdoor kitchen is drawn, a pool equipment pad sitting where the plan needs a wall. None of that is hard to solve early. All of it is a jackhammer later.
Do you take over the relationship with our client?
No. On a builder referral you stay the general, your client stays your client, and we work to your schedule and your standard. We are not going to bid the house, we are not going to sell your buyer things you did not scope, and we are not going to be the reason a walkthrough goes sideways. Our whole business depends on being a name you can give again next quarter.
How does this work with an architect?
As collaboration, not as a sub taking your drawings and doing something else with them. We start from what you designed: the massing, the sight lines, the material palette, the way the house is supposed to meet the ground. Then we extend it outdoors, and we bring the plan back to you before it goes to construction. If you want the yard to read as the same building, that only happens if the landscape team is designing with you rather than reacting to a finished set.
What kind of projects do you take on?
Luxury residential landscape design-build across Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Arcadia, Cave Creek, North Scottsdale, and the rest of the Phoenix metro. Full estate grounds, pools and spas, hardscape and motor courts, outdoor kitchens, fire features, pergolas and ramadas, lighting, plantings, and outdoor wellness including cold plunges and saunas. The lots we do our best work on are the hard ones: boulders, real grade, and drainage that has to survive a monsoon.
Are you licensed and insured for our jobs?
Yes. State48 Landscape is licensed in Arizona under AZ ROC #344120, bonded, and fully insured. Send us whatever your office needs on file and we will get it back to you.
Do you handle HOA and municipal review?
Yes, on the landscape scope. We package the renderings, site plans, material boards, drainage plans, and lighting cut sheets that the review boards in Paradise Valley, Silverleaf, DC Ranch, Troon, and Desert Mountain ask for, and we coordinate the inspections that go with the permits we pull. It is part of the design-build contract, not a task we hand back to you or your client.
How do we start?
Book the site walk, or call Wes and Logan directly at (833) 408-4848. The fastest way to find out if we are the right name to hand your buyers is to put us on a lot and watch what we notice.
Put Us On One of Your Sites and See
Wes and Logan will walk an active build with you, flag the outdoor coordination issues, and hand you the notes. Free, no strings, no pitch to your client. Then you decide whether we are a name worth giving.
State48 Landscape LLC · Licensed, bonded, insured · AZ ROC #344120