Gabe Joseph
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319 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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But I think it's definitely the wave.
I think it's the wave of the future in construction.
Nationals are starting to do it.
And pretty much everybody else should be looking at that if they're not already.
Say we had a budget that just for conversation, say it was $100 a foot in Austin with all local vendors and suppliers, that becomes a $60 a foot budget.
Now that's not real, I'm just tying it to a metric, but of course.
Yeah, no, it's significant.
And that's probably more exaggerated in hot markets like Austin, like Southern California, parts of Florida, places where construction costs are just incredibly inflated because of demand and everything else that drives them up.
Most of which is just profit that goes straight to the subs and vendors.
But you find out pretty quickly that's mostly all it is.
It's not really what those things cost.
So anyway.
hire someone hire a team of people dude figure it out right and we're not the only ones doing it I mean for sure we're not the first ones of course there are others I mean I believe there's even other groups just in my market that are doing that happen uh for a while so yeah it's you start I think the biggest I think the only smart thing I've ever done in construction is to continue to be curious about how to figure things out and you know in doing that you find all kinds of interesting stuff if you
willing to just quit fucking around and really see if it's something that you know you can do it on and i think unfortunately that's a limiting factor a lot of times which is in this business and probably every other but definitely in residential construction there's a tendency to just sort of do things the way we've always done them over and over and over and it's very slow to change and it's very slow to adapt and embrace you know a new idea or a new technology whatever it is there's still guys walking around fucking job sites in every city in america with yellow legal pads writing down notes about how to do things
I think the thing that we're seeing in terms of how to grow that volume more or less exponentially is that so much of it has to do with the strategy and not the tactics.
And I think most builders I know focus way too much on tactics.
It's the nuts and bolts.
It's the type of insulation.
It's the type of HVAC system.
All that's fine.
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