LittleSandie - I live in Frisco and just signed a contract two weeks ago. We received bids from (in order of receiving bids) Platinum, Blue Haven (only because some friends of ours recommended them), Foley, Riverbend Sandler, and Water Frontiers.

All bids were for gunite pools, and from what I understand, gunite's the way to go in North Texas.

Blue Haven's bid was $5K less then everyone else's, but looking at their BBB problems and general service problems from people online, our decision was easy not to go with them.

I'd also suggest going to http://www.frisco-online.com. Go to the forums on the site. There are quite a few threads on selecting pool builders.

Good luck!