[1]Donald Bruce Kaufman was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1922, the third child of immigrant parents from Russia.

The business received a lot of work after the Korean war, with men returning to the States and needing homes for their growing families.

With limited resources, Kaufman handled production, purchasing quality, and material control and Broad did the financial detail and administration work.

In 1965, the Detroit News noted:[3] "Detroit’s building boom has brought Donald Kaufman out of semi-retirement and back from California to lend a strong hand to the business that started here and grew into a nationwide, multi-million dollar operation in only eight years."

Detroit News went on to state how Kaufman could build a three bedroom house with a basement in the cold winter, plowing thru the ice in Detroit Michigan and on the seventh day, customers were talking to the salesmen while walking through a new, furnished home.