Jake Bruton
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371 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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And then you also got your profit out of it.
Like we make what our profit as an industry tends to be what equates out to being a kind of crappy tip.
Super low margin.
Yeah.
Totally.
These are not enormous margins where we're getting filthy rich.
Totally.
Yeah, and it doesn't matter which one you do as long as you fully understand where your costs are and where your numbers are going.
You can make either one work just fine.
We just figured out that it was going to make us more competitive because I didn't have to leave a big safety number.
on the back side when we were fixed fee because i was adding sometimes upwards of 30 or 40 on big remodels now i still note that number to clients but i just call it contingency budget and i don't put it in my contract i just say you need to have this available just in case we get into things
Uh, yeah, so I had, uh, one project, uh, that I lost, uh, an incredible sum of money on.
How much was it?
We're on the builders budgets and beers podcast.
You got to share.
Uh, at the time my business was doing about a million dollars in revenue a year and I lost 180 grand.
Dude, that's devastating.
Well, 180 grand might not be a huge sum of money to some businesses at a time where you're only doing a million dollars.
it was a lot totally.
And it was money that I owed, not just money out of pocket.
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