Chris Kerr

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318 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 24 Dec

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · Fixed Price vs Cost Plus with Chris Kerr · 24 Dec 2025 podcast

So I will say this-

With this particular cost plus job that I'm doing, I did ask that we keep the overhead and the project management.

I'm sorry.

No, I just did the project management.

I wanted a fixed price for the project management because I did not want to get into... And I don't know how other cost plus builders do it.

like are they building their pms time for every hour that they're on the site or working on the job i didn't even want to get into that debate so i just said look we're going to have a fixed price to manage this job for the scope of work and i'm going to build it as a percentage of work progress and that's that to me i think it's pretty common

Yeah.

I hear the fixed fee argument, but I'm also just like, geez, if they like, I don't know, now want a Chevron pattern or some crazy like high level of management thing, there is a piece of me that's like, there's a little more risk here for everybody.

Yes.

And with that risk ought to come the appropriate level of fee.

So that's where I have a hard time just committing to one fee.

Is he the guy that like won't start a job until all selections are made?

And are you saying that for both the client and builder?

So answer me this, just because, you know, I live in the world of construction and, you know, I, I would never do this, but I mean, there is an opportunity for any builder to take a, take an invoice, certainly unethical and ask a subcontractor to put another $2,000 on that.

and then present it to the client.

I mean, I just, like, I feel like there's an elephant in the room here with that.

Like, is that not going through the mind of a client?

And, and look like huge caveat here.

Never.

This is me just speaking objectively.

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