I’m Jake Landry—aka The LoveRain Man—owner and founder of The LoveRain Roof Company. I come from a long line of Texas hands-on folks who’d rather fix it themselves than call someone else. My great-grandfather, Jake Landry, was a master carpenter (yes, I’m named after the guy who probably built half of East Texas with a hammer and sheer stubbornness). My grandfather built homes and ranched in Fredericksburg, and a bunch of uncles and cousins kept the custom-home-building tradition alive. Growing up on our family ranch in the small town of Brenham, Texas, we didn’t just play outside—we built barns, fixed fences, and patched roofs like it was recess. If it needed repairing, we grabbed tools, not a phone.

In 2000, at 21, I moved to Arlington and kicked off a small construction business working for fancy custom-home builders. Weekends? I’d haul down to Austin to hang with friends—half my Brenham crew went to UT or Texas State, and Austin being so much cooler than DFW, I couldn’t get enough.

Then came the plot twist vacation in Florida. Friends and I are cruising to our favorite Greek spot when we spot a group of “lucky” ladies from Monterrey, Mexico, hunting for food. Being helpful Texans, we say, “Follow us—this place is the best.” One of them, Criselda “Cris,” apparently couldn’t resist my… let’s call it “legendary charm.” (She rolls her eyes every time I say that, but facts are facts.) Fast-forward: I’m marrying her, ditching North Texas on a sunny spring whim, and we’re starting fresh in Austin.

We got hitched, scraped together cash, bought a couple fixer-uppers to flip in the hottest market Austin had ever seen, and thought we were real-estate geniuses. Cue 2008. The crash hit like a Category 5 hurricane made of bad decisions. We went from “future moguls” to “broke newlyweds” overnight. Oh, and Cris got pregnant with twins. New country for her, new babies, new city, zero dollars, and a marriage that somehow survived me saying, “Honey, I think we’re gonna be fine… eventually.”

Austin was in mega-drought—no rain, no jobs, no mercy. Luckily, the nation’s biggest roofing manufacturer swooped in and hired me to travel North America training roofing crews. For almost four years I was the roaming roof professor, teaching installers in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico everything from proper nailing to reading specs without falling asleep.

Around 2012, I said, “enough airports”, and came home to Cris and the twins. That’s when LoveRain Roof Co. launched. I’d seen the dark side of roofing—too many folks jumping in for quick insurance money with zero clue how to actually build a roof that lasts. During COVID, it was like everyone with a ladder and a dream started a roofing company. Spoiler: a lot of those roofs failed the first big rain. LoveRain? We went the other way—obsessed with details, safe sites, real communication, and roofs built to outlive the warranty calls.

Our tight-knit, family-oriented crew has fixed thousands of roofs over the last decade-plus. We do repairs and full installs (residential & commercial), custom flashings, gutters, painting, siding fixes, masonry, chimney rebuilds—you name it, we’ve fixed or renovated it.

Biggest win? Keeping our whole team employed and fed, thanks to this community. That means we get to sponsor kids’ programs, stay plugged into local life, and help folks when they need it most. We love giving back because Dripping Springs has given us so much.

To our Belterra and Dripping Springs neighbors: Thanks for trusting us. When the next storm rolls through, call The LoveRain Man. We’ll button up your roof so tight you can sit back, watch the rain, and think, “Yeah… I actually do love this rain.” 

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