Two counties. One team.
Lundquist Built builds in South Orange County. Jacinto Built builds in North County San Diego. Blake Lundquist and Paul Jacinto run both of them, together — we treat the two as one company that happens to carry two names.
This is not a referral arrangement, and it is not two shops trading favors. Both of us are on every project, we work off one bench of trades across both counties, and nothing about the standard changes when the sign does.
The names exist because the markets do — different agencies, different inspectors, different crews — and because Paul lives in Carlsbad and Blake lives in San Clemente. Whichever name is on the sign, you get both of us.
How we work
We pay our subcontractors within 24 hours of their invoice — usually before we have been paid ourselves. Very few builders our size can say that, and it is the main reason our crews put our jobs at the front of the line. A sub who knows the check clears the next day answers the phone, holds their pricing, and comes back to fix something without an argument.
Our bench is small shops and local artisans. Low-overhead outfits, most of them crews Paul has worked with for over a decade — not high-volume operations that price for their own overhead and staff your job with whoever happens to be free. That is most of why our pricing stays competitive without cutting anything you would ever notice.
You can reach us. Every project gets a group thread with you and all four of us in it, so you never wait on one person to be free — whoever is closest to the answer gives it to you. Separately, we run our own thread with each trade, so what you tell us reaches the crew doing the work immediately instead of going through a chain.
You see the numbers. Blake owns the job costing and makes sure it gets done; Paul prices it alongside him and walks the scope with our trades before it is written, so the number you are handed is one the people doing the work have already agreed to. Proposals, invoices, statements of account and updated payment schedules follow as the job moves. Construction shouldn’t be opaque.
Both of us, on every project.
One of us walks your property, both of us stay on it, and neither of us hands your job to somebody you have never met.
Blake Lundquist
Blake ran operations at California Pools from 2021 to 2026 and managed the construction of more than two hundred new pools. It was the first franchise in a system of more than thirty, the top performer for its team size the entire time he was there, and held more five-star reviews than any other franchise in the group.
He learned the business from an unusual angle. The company self-performed nothing — every project was subcontracted and managed — so what he actually learned was general contracting itself: permits, sequencing, trade relationships and cost. Fifty-six pools sold in a single year against a team with no room to grow, and the only way through was to build systems. A bid sheet that walked someone who had never built a pool through pricing one in the right order. A schedule that could hold twenty jobs in construction and twenty more waiting on permits at the same time. He sat with subcontractors weekly to keep their pricing sharp, and when the two masonry crews on the bench weren’t good enough, he sent the same project out to two hundred masons in a week to find two who were.
That is also where the conviction behind Lundquist Built came from. A lean team carries lower overhead, and lower overhead shows up directly in the bid. It also leaves nowhere to hide — a small team has to be organized and has to execute. Lundquist Built is built that way deliberately.
Today Blake handles job costing, proposals and contracts, invoicing, statements and payment schedules across both companies — with Paul pricing alongside him — and makes sure every subcontractor is paid within 24 hours of invoicing. Lundquist Built holds a Class B general building license. Blake lives in San Clemente with his wife Sara, their two daughters Greta and Reya, and a son due January 2027.
Paul Jacinto
Paul has been building and remodeling homes since 2011 — first on his own real estate portfolio, flipping and holding rentals, then for the clients he was representing as an agent. He still works as a real estate agent, and that combination is genuinely rare: he knows which rooms return the money and which only spend it, and he can tell a homeowner what a renovation will actually cost before they buy the house.
It is how he became one of the most sought-after builders in North County, and it is where our subcontractor bench came from. Fifteen years of paying good crews fairly and on time has built a network that answers the phone, moves our projects up the line, and stands behind its work.
Paul runs both companies alongside Blake. He is on site through the build, and his read on what a project will actually cost — fifteen years of it, first on his own properties and then on his clients’ — is what keeps our numbers honest before a single trade is booked.
Who runs your project day to day.
Seth and Tyler serve both companies, and they are on site through the build — Seth as your primary contact on the job, Tyler alongside him day to day.
Seth Lewis
Seth is on site when the trades are. He sets the sequence, holds the standard the work is measured against, and is the primary point of contact on the job — the person a homeowner deals with most between demolition and punch list.
Tyler Watts
Tyler runs the day-to-day on site alongside Seth — build schedule, trade coordination, quality control, and progress billing as milestones complete. When a plan needs adjusting mid-build he works through the constructability himself, so what gets built matches what was drawn.
License + Compliance
Lundquist Built Inc. is a California licensed general contractor — CSLB License #1155885 (Class B, General Building) — licensed, insured and bonded. Every project is contracted in full BPC §7159 compliance with itemized scope, payment schedule, and change-order procedures documented before the first day of work.