Jason Hamilton

Talk to me a little bit about just your experience being in, I know we had mentioned it in the episode of like how much people knew that, like how much the work meant and that culture.

Because you have a ton of people that, you know, in 2020 during the pandemic, they were getting their rates at like the twos and the threes.

And I'm not coming out of that mortgage ever.

What was that culture like?

I saw a statistic recently.

I think they might have been earlier today that, you know, and this is the reason why I even brought up the question of inventory, that in the 80s, we were building half a million.

This is nationwide.

But in the 80s, we were building about half a million homes a year.

In the 90s, that number shrank to about 200,000 homes a year.

Now we're floating at around like 150,000 homes a year that we're building.

Right.

So a lot of questions that I hear, at least as far as real estate is concerned, is why are we not building?

Um, so, and this is, this statistic pertains to single family starter homes, right?

Homes that are going to be two, maybe three bedroom.

As soon as you get to four bedroom, then the numbers are entirely different.

In the pursuit of this greater goal.

But what would be your take on sort of those starter homes for somebody that's out there that's, you know, just maybe starting a family, just wanted to get into their first home.

Right.

It's so...

When you think about I think about this often because I'm here talking with people who are CEOs, leaders.