Jeremy Sloane
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434 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 11 Feb
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The client says to me, oh, well, we're thinking about building a 6,000 square foot house.
What do you think it's going to cost?
And we misallocated in the framing and drywall category.
the last one like i i could be very wrong totally um and that's kind of where it's where it is really important for me so like no knowing your numbers really matters
It has to be the same.
It has to be the same.
Biggest piece of advice, whoever estimates the job or whatever software you use to estimate a job has to follow the same cost code structure as the guy who builds the job.
It cannot be different.
It has to be the same set of cost codes.
got to be consistent it has to be and i i i think i mean we op we do everything in our business on a cost plus basis i've done one fixed price job in my career um and it was just because a client was adamant that i give him a fixed price number and i told him i was going to add 10 to my profit and he was fine with it i said okay fine i'll just make 10 more money yeah but so the like
from a cost in a cost plus standpoint, right?
We're giving budgets at the front end.
Yep.
But if, if I have budgeted a hundred thousand dollars for a stucco job, but it actually should have been $200,000 for a stucco line, that's a really uncomfortable conversation to have to have with a client.
Totally.
It's not that it's not that it necessarily matters in the long run,
Because as cost plus, it's whatever the cost is, is what it is.
We'll competitively bid stuff, but it's whatever it actually is, what you're going to pay plus my fees.
It's still a really uncomfortable conversation to have to go to the client and say, I missed it by a hundred grand and I don't know what to tell you.
yeah right because i was looking at bad data so like like i said at the beginning we don't we don't estimate anything on a cost per square foot basis but like i really need to know what we spent on stucco what we spent on electrical what we spent on plumbing
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