Michael Anschel

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · COPE-ing with Overhead and Cost Codes with Michael Anschel · 19 Mar 2025 podcast

michael thank you so much for jumping on um go ahead and give the listeners a little background on yourself your business um we'll obviously jump into you know the mind of michael here but give the give the listeners a little background on yourself here it's a dark and scary place i don't know if we want to really go uh yeah so michael anchel i'm the uh the owner of oa design build architecture minneapolis minnesota we celebrated our 30th year in business last year

uh we even made our own our own uh scotch whiskey oh that's badass we should be drinking that right you should be drinking i should have brought you a bottle yeah yeah all right for another day uh and uh let's see we do a lot of residential remodeling high-end remodeling design build type stuff and a little bit of high-end new construction um fairly custom stuff and uh

We have a team of about 15 people.

Sometimes we're 13, sometimes we're 15.

We've got carpenters in-house.

We have design, drafting, architecture in-house.

And then we have project management and everything in-house as well.

So we're a true design build architecture firm.

Yeah, cope.

And not just coping.

Exactly.

So cope is a concept.

It's a method of estimating that we pioneered about 17, 18 years ago, refined it, refined it, implemented it, and then began teaching it about 12 years ago.

And there's a number of pretty successful remodelers around and builders around the country that are using it today.

You know, the foundation of the COPE system is that it rejects the premise of the single margin multiplier.

So a lot of us were taught, you know, you should be doing a 40% margin or a 1.68 markup.

You take your cogs, you multiply it by a number, that's your sell price.

And then we're also taught that you should stick to that.

You should never adjust it.

You should really stick to your guns on that, whatever that margin is.

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