Jake Bruton

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · The True Cost of Fixed Fee vs Cost Plus Models · 23 Jul 2025 podcast

Everything.

Well, effectively the way our cost plus contract is written is we spend the money you owe us for it.

Now we don't, we try not to treat it like that.

We don't treat it as an open checkbook.

We want the accountability there.

But if it comes down to it, our contract is basically written as if that money goes into the project,

and that was specified in any way in the plans, as long as we're not putting in a swimming pool that wasn't accounted for.

Yep.

You, you owe us for that.

Yeah.

You know, and so go ahead.

We're, we're way more diligent now with additional work authorizations.

We call them an AWA now instead of change order.

Cause change order has a negative connotation.

I'd love that.

What's AWA additional work.

authorization and that's not a term that i came up with another builder friend that i respect highly said that and i was like oh hold on we need to discuss this because change order does sound dirty and it does sound like we're going to try to stick it to the client in some way because that's the way the industry thinks about it you know yep uh so we're way more diligent with those things now nobody's perfect we still every once in a while have something go through that we're like hold on

Mr. Project Manager, did you get this signed or not?

But we're way better now than we were.

And we generally don't piss people off anymore.

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