Jake Bruton

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371 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard Jul 2025

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

And sometimes it's one way, sometimes it's the other.

But we try to give them as much information as possible.

I have never had a client since we started invoicing this way say, well, I don't owe you for that.

Totally beautiful.

There's, there's no question on whether or not it's got your address on it.

Yep.

I can point at your job and show you where those materials are, or I can call that sub and go, Hey, can you talk to the client and tell them how you put this HVAC system in their house?

If they try, you know, I've never had anybody go, I don't know you for that.

I've had people go, I don't have the money to pay you.

Yeah.

But that has no bearing on anything, you know?

Yeah, so pricing is something that's very difficult.

I went to a bank this morning with a client because the clients are going to be asking for an extension on time and for more money.

We bid the house two years ago, and it's going to cost more than what it was when we bid it.

And most of that is price shift.

Some of that is client choice, and some of that is us.

We're part of the problem, too.

In other words, we're over budget on some things.

But when it comes to things like tariffs, that's a big question mark.

Nobody could have planned for that.

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