Jake Bruton
speaker
371 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
Jake Bruton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I thought,
boy, I wouldn't have to put this big chunk of money on the backside to try to stay ahead of people.
And I bid one project as a cost plus project in my mind or on paper.
And then I bid it my normal way.
And I just kind of sat and looked at it and I went, this, this fricking $400,000 remodel is a $320,000 remodel.
if I don't have to do it as a fixed fee where I'm worried about stuff as much.
And I still had some contingency money in it.
And I went, I'm going to try it once.
And I did it for $328,000 or something like that.
And I was like, yeah, I missed out on that cash.
But then they told me that I got the job because I was like 80 grand cheaper than the next guy.
Well, I would have been the same price as the next guy, and I might not have got the job.
And so I made all that profit that I made off that job when I might not have made the money in the first place.
And I was like, okay, I can be cheaper and more competitive.
if I don't have to build in that, oh crap money.
Totally.
So I was just like, I just have to figure out how to not mislead people where I'm just like, I'm just overly cheap for no reason.
And so I immediately just started saying like, okay, if it's a new construction, I'm going to tell people, Hey, we very rarely have been, you know, 10 or 15% over budget.
Um,
If you take the number that I tell you for the house and add 10% to it, we should be well within what is perfectly reasonable to build this house for you, barring any COVID pricing or you going crazy during the process, which I don't think of that as over buzz or outside of estimate.
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