North Texas contractor puts family and customer first to build thriving business
Family is everything to Angel Hernandez, just as it was for his ancestors. And whether that means moving to another city, another state, or even another country, his family has always done what’s best for the future generations.
It also seems to work out well for the current generations.
Hernandez and his wife Alyssa moved to Trophy Club five years ago because he wanted his children to attend a great school district. He was well aware of how renowned the Northwest ISD is.
Along with that desired education came an advancement for himself. He has established his own successful contracting business, Angel Hernandez Renovations.
”Someone was selling a house to be remodeled and when I came to see the home, I felt like this was the place I wanted to move my family,” Hernandez, 46, said.
His two oldest children have since graduated from Byron Nelson High School and his youngest will graduate in 2024.
Hernandez is following a path similar to his grandparents. He was born in Tucson, Arizona, after his grandparents relocated there from Mexico to give his parents a better life.
Hernandez attended electrical trade school after he graduated from high school and became an electrician. He moved to Arlington at age 27 and worked for an electrical contract company for around 11 years.
But again, he made a change for his family.
”We did commercial work in hospitals and schools. Soon I was traveling and leaving my family at home for long periods of time. I decided that it was time for a change,” he said. “I began working on my own, doing electrical work for local contractors.
” ... I trained myself to go beyond just doing electrical work and began learning how to do framing, painting, texturing, etc. I began to get busier and busier and was able to rely on some of the networking I had done in my previous jobs.”
The opportunities kept pouring in, and so did the success. He began getting more and more jobs closer to home through referrals.
”Soon I had found my own fabricator and was able to establish accounts with top local vendors. I was doing larger remodels and the business kept coming in,” he said.
It also helped, he said, that he puts honesty above all else. He’d rather make a few less honest dollars than a lot the wrong way, he stressed.
”I began to see contractors taking advantage of their customers with excessively high prices and poor quality work,” he said.
Hernandez’s advice to others getting into the business is simple: do what you say you will, take care of people, get to know them, take care of the customer and the money will take care of itself.
And above all else, remember family first.
