Home Pride Contractors

The Name Says it All!

By Deborah Daley

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Michelle Ryan takes excellence in business very seriously. When she was looking for a roofing business to put her own stamp on, she was immediately drawn to Home Pride Contractors. It is a family-owned, family-operated roofing company with years of experience in the home improvement industry, specializing in roofing, siding, windows, and gutters. Home Pride Contractors was founded in 1984. When Michelle acquired it in 2014, she knew it would be a great company to expand. 

“The brand has great meaning to each employee, as our team works very hard to ensure that we are offering high-quality products and services to the market,” Michelle says. “A tremendous amount of work quietly happens behind the scenes to achieve these economies of scale and high standards in an industry that is primarily self-moderated.”

Michelle is a Nebraska native and has been around roofing her entire life. She was born in North Platte. Her father started, owned, and operated a large commercial and residential roofing company that served central and western Nebraska, northern Kansas, South Dakota, and eastern Colorado.  

“I acquired my company through coaching and mentoring from my father and my brother,” Michelle notes. “I have expanded the family roofing footprint into eastern Nebraska and Iowa!” In 2023, the firm opened a spacious, 5,400-square-foot headquarters in Omaha, and they also maintain offices in Des Moines and Council Bluffs and Lincoln. Michelle’s husband joined the firm about eight years ago.

Michelle earned her undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of Nebraska Omaha and has resided in Omaha for more than 20 years. Prior to acquiring Home Pride, most of her corporate career was in business development, marketing, and growth initiatives on the manufacturing side of the building materials industry.

“It is easy to get into this industry,” Michelle points out, “but not so easy to stay in. My family’s longevity in this field is a testament to our quality standards and doing right by the people we serve.” Those are the same values that Home Pride espouses, Michelle continues. They’ve built their reputation on the highest quality of professional service, products, and craftsmanship. “I have always taken a driven and dedicated approach to my work, and I encourage those values in our team,” Michelle says. “We work hard to provide the highest quality services in the marketplace.” 

Home Pride currently has about 40 employees. As the president of the company, Michelle no longer runs daily operations. Her main job, she says, is pulling the levers that need to be pulled when it’s the right time, to ensure that the “big picture” vision of the company stays intact. “Many of my team members have been with me for years, and we have an excellent team in place that runs the day-to-day operations.”

It’s no secret that Nebraska homeowners have to deal with hail damage sooner or later, and Home Pride offers several unique advantages to customers who are facing this issue. For example, their customers have access to a database where a homeowner can call and check if their location has been hit with hail damage. 

With advances in the field, savvy consumers now are picking contractors, like Home Pride, that have the proper credentials, abilities, and expertise to do the job correctly. “Because we are fully credentialed, we can conduct damage assessments and not wait for insurance assessors,” Michelle says. “We are in network with most insurance companies, and they send jobs our way because we are true partners. We also offer free hail damage inspections and assessments.”

The team at Home Pride always tries to do right by their customers, providing high quality service and treating them with respect. According to their customers, they’re getting
the job done right! One of these satisfied customers is Lois, whose hail damage situation was more complicated than most. 

“I had a very complex situation regarding storm damage to the roof of my duplex,” Lois shares. “Obviously, my attached neighbor has different insurance. In a nutshell, Jeff Vest went the distance…he made it possible with endless negotiations between both insurances. He was always available for questions and explained much of the process better than anyone at my insurance company. I truly cannot say enough good things about Home Pride. You have earned my confidence and future business for sure.”

If that sounds like the level of enthusiasm you’d like to have about your roofing contractor, you should see what Home Pride Contractors can do for you! You can reach Michelle Ryan and the Home Pride team at 402-592-5577. The Omaha office is at 8288 Hascall Street, in Omaha. For more details on their services, find them online at homepride.net. 

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