Builder profile
M/I Homes
A homebuilder that publishes its own Mid-State Tennessee community list; in our new-construction data it is named in communities across Sumner, Davidson, Maury, Rutherford and Wilson counties.
- Headquarters
- Columbus, Ohio
- Founded
- 1976
- Typical price tier
- Range of price points
- Signature
- Journey, its construction-tracking app for buyers under contract
M/I Homes publishes its own Mid-State Tennessee market page listing the communities it is selling across the Nashville area. On the day we read it that list held fifteen communities, from Gallatin in the north to Columbia in the south, with Murfreesboro, Lebanon, Mount Juliet, Hermitage, Madison, Antioch, La Vergne, Fairview and Nashville itself in between. Each entry carries the builder's own status label and its own priced-from line, and each community page repeats both. The company's own About page dates the firm to 1976 and names its founders, and its customer-care page gives a Middle Tennessee office address in Franklin.
Two things about that list are worth checking before you lean on it. The first is that the builder's own status and ours can disagree: on the day we read it, M/I's own page for Pennington Mills in Nashville carried a closeout status while our community record still had it selling, and our Ridgeside Heights record in Antioch is not on the builder's Mid-State list at all. The second is that the builder's own starting figures have moved since our own June 2026 data pull, in both directions, on most of the communities we hold. Neither record is wrong on purpose — a builder reprices and closes phases between refreshes — but the ledger below carries the builder's own wording with the day we read it, which is the only way to tell which is current.
On warranty, M/I's own customer-care page publishes no warranty program name, but it publishes something more useful than a name: it offers a sample warranty manual in advance of purchase, and routes claims through an online form. That is the document to read while you still have leverage rather than after closing. The same page lists a Design Studio among its own contact categories, so selections run through a studio appointment rather than across the sales desk — ask early which selections are included in the base price and which are priced options, and get the answer in writing.
What buying from M/I Homes is like
The purchase runs through the builder's on-site team and the builder's own contract. Download the sample warranty manual from the builder's own customer-care page before you sign rather than after, ask for the included-features list for your exact plan and homesite in writing, and ask which items on it are standard versus a current-phase promotion. Go into the design-studio appointment with a written options budget. Order your own pre-drywall and final-walkthrough inspections; a builder's internal quality control is not a substitute for an inspector who works for you.
Which communities does M/I Homes build in?
Every new-construction community on this site that names M/I Homes, by county — 7 in total, 6 of them recorded as selling in our own data. Status moves faster than any page does, so call us at 615-265-1000 and we will confirm what is actually releasing homesites this week.
On 2026-09-23 we read M/I Homes's own Middle Tennessee community list and compared it with every community above. One of them was not on it, and it ismarked below. We keep the page either way — that is our record of where this builder has built — but we will not present a community as something you can buy into today when the builder's own list has moved on from it. A community leaving a line-up is normally a phase closing out.
Davidson County
Rutherford County
Sumner County
Wilson County
Can I bring my own agent to a M/I Homes community?
The sales counselor you meet at a M/I Homes model works for M/I Homes. That is the role, and a good one knows those plans, those homesites and that build schedule inside out. What the role does not include is representing you on price, on which options are worth buying, on the lot premium, or on the terms of the builder's own contract. That is what a buyer's agent does, and in Tennessee you are generally free to bring your own to a builder community at little or no cost to you.
Timing is the part people get wrong. Most builders ask who your agent is on your very first visit, and sorting it out afterwards is an awkward conversation nobody needs. Call us at 615-265-1000 before you walk into the model and your representation is in place from the first appointment — which is also when it is worth the most, because that is when the plan, the homesite and the options are still open.
The builder's own list moved on three of the communities we hold between our data pull and the night we read it — one closed out, one is gone from the list, and the starting figures shifted both ways. Knowing which of those is true this week is the practical value here. Call us at 615-265-1000 and we will pull the live sheet for the exact community you are considering before you drive out.
What M/I Homes publishes about itself, and where we read it
Every line on this page about M/I Homes came off M/I Homes’ own website. Here is each one with the page it came from and the day we read it, so you can check it yourself — and so you can see when a figure is old enough to be worth re-checking. Builder pricing, availability and programs change without notice.
| What the builder's own site says | Source | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| M/I Homes publishes its own Mid-State Tennessee market page. When we read it, that page held fifteen communities: Barton's Mill (Lebanon); Bledsoe Springs and Village At Bledsoe Springs (Gallatin); Hamilton Reserve (Antioch); Hillcrest Village and Reserve at Silver Springs (Columbia); Kingsley Park (Hermitage); Otter Creek (Fairview); Pennington Mills and The Franklin (Nashville); Riverwalk Reserve (Madison); Villages at Woodland Hills (La Vergne); Villas at Regal Square and Vincion (Murfreesboro); and Windtree (Mount Juliet). | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
| The builder's own community page for Bledsoe Springs in Gallatin published a starting figure, and gave that community's status as Now Selling:“Priced from: $404,990” | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
| Its own community page for Hillcrest Village in Columbia published a starting figure below the one our own record carried, and also gave that community's status as Now Selling:“Priced from: $274,990” | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
| Its own community page for Pennington Mills in Nashville gave that community's status in one word, while our own record still had it selling — confirm the status before you tour:“Closeout” | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
| The same Pennington Mills page published a starting figure well above the one our own record carried, which is the other half of the same drift:“Priced from: $549,990” | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
| The company's own About page dates the firm to 1976, names its founders as Melvin and Irving Schottenstein, places its start in Columbus, Ohio, and states that it now serves seventeen markets across the United States. | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
| Its own customer-care page publishes no warranty program name and no term schedule. What it does publish is that the warranty document is available to read before you buy:“A sample warranty manual is available in advance of home purchase.” | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
| That page gives the Nashville-market office address as 725 Cool Springs Blvd, Suite 180, Franklin, Tennessee, and lists a Design Studio among its own contact categories. | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
| Its own site names the app it gives buyers under contract to follow construction, stage by stage, and to file warranty requests after move-in:“Journey” | mihomes.com | 2026-09-23 |
Sources read through 2026-09-23. Where a figure appears above it is the builder's own published wording on that date and nothing more — not an appraisal, not a forecast, and not a promise of what any home will cost today. The Will Johnson Team is not affiliated with M/I Homes.
We represent buyers in new construction at little or no cost to you, and because we tour these communities constantly we help you compare M/I Homes against other builders, read the incentives, and navigate the build to closing. Builder programs, plans, and pricing change — confirm current terms on any specific home before you write an offer. The Will Johnson Team is not affiliated with M/I Homes; this guide is our independent, buyer-side read.