Services
Custom homes, spec houses, pools, and commercial work across Pinellas and Tampa
Three service lines, one contractor, and the same engineer running all of them. Most of the work is custom residential on the beaches; the rest follows from it.
The main work
Custom homes and spec houses
Nikic’s primary focus is custom homes across the Pinellas County beaches, South Tampa, and Davis Islands — though other Tampa Bay area locations are considered. Typically 3,000 square feet and up, on coastal lots where flood elevation, foundation design, and structural steel are decided before anything else is.
The Madeira Beach build, where structural steel meant bridge-grade rebar →
That includes homes commissioned directly by the family who’ll live in them, and spec homes built for developers to sell — the same structural rigor either way, with a different commissioning relationship.
You can bring your own architect and plans, or Nikic can take you through design. Either way the structural drawings get audited before procurement starts, and anything that doesn’t work gets raised then rather than during framing.
Coastal builds carry constraints inland projects don’t: FEMA flood elevation requirements, wind load ratings, pile foundations where the soil demands them, and municipalities that each interpret the code slightly differently. Sasa has built through all of it, and he’ll tell you which parts of your plan are going to be expensive before you’re committed to them.
Two ways to build one
Pools
Alongside a home. Every pool Nikic has built has gone in as part of a custom home project — including one in St. Pete elevated for its flood zone and finished in six weeks, and one on a Treasure Island rental where the lot was tight enough that half the pool sits beneath the second-floor living space. Building the pool and the house together means one contractor, one schedule, and no argument about whose responsibility the transition detail is.
On its own. Nikic also takes pool projects on existing properties. What makes that unusual is the license: this is a general contractor with a structural engineering background specifying the concrete shell and the foundation that carries it, rather than a pool specialist. On coastal lots — high water table, poor soil, flood zone elevation requirements — the shell is a structural problem before it’s a finish problem. The pool work itself is subcontracted to licensed, insured pool trades.
Equipment is Pentair as standard, and pricing is line-item rather than a lump sum. Lien releases are issued at every draw if you or your bank ask for them, and in all cases before the final draw is released.
A growing part of the work
Commercial
Nikic’s license covers commercial construction, and that side of the business is expanding. Completed work includes a restaurant renovation and a warehouse; a second restaurant is under contract and a gas station is in discussion.
This is a smaller portfolio than the residential work and we’d rather say so than imply otherwise. If you’re considering Nikic for a commercial project, ask about it directly — Sasa will tell you honestly whether it’s a good fit.
Three options
How pricing works
Every project is priced one of three ways — a fixed contractor fee, cost-plus, or a price per square foot — and you choose which. Around sixty percent of clients take the fixed fee, because it removes any question about whether a recommendation is about the house or about the fee.
A $25,000 deposit starts the permitting process. After that, draws are monthly, against work that is complete and inspected — nothing is billed ahead of the work.
How each structure works, and what a fixed fee does and doesn’t protect you from →
Not sure which service you need?
Describe the project and Sasa will tell you what’s involved — including if it isn’t something Nikic should be taking on.