How to Hire Team Members Who Actually Fit Your Building Business

Another hire that looked perfect on paper: great resume, solid experience, and said all the right things in the interview. Three months in, they’re creating more problems than they’re solving. Projects are delayed. You’re constantly managing them instead of leading your business. And you’re wondering why building a team feels harder than building the actual […]

Why Your Building Business Can’t Grow (And It’s Probably You)

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Every custom builder hits this wall. You’re working harder than ever, but your business feels stuck. Projects drag on, profits shrink, and you’re constantly firefighting. Every decision, every client conversation, every site issue lands on your desk. While you’re micromanaging every detail, your competitors are scaling, winning bigger projects, and actually enjoying their businesses. You’re […]

Custom Builder Progress Claims: How to Stop Funding Other People’s Projects

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You’re caught between progress claims that work for your business and banks that don’t understand custom home construction. This clash over progress claims is quietly destroying good builders like you. But what if the solution isn’t compromise, but taking control?   Every day you’re forced to fund someone else’s project with your working capital, you’re: […]

Why Working Harder Is Making Your Building Business Worse (Not Better)

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The real reason you’re working 60+ hours but still struggling to get ahead and why “just work harder” isn’t working anymore. You’re working harder than ever, but your bank account, schedule and energy levels all feel depleted. You know something’s not right.   You’re working incredibly hard, probably harder than anyone you know, but at […]

Why Your Building Team Keeps Making the Same Mistakes

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You know that sinking feeling when you walk onto the site and immediately sense something’s wrong? Another “quick chat” that turns into a heated discussion about something you thought was crystal clear.   This is the hidden business killer no one talks about. You’re stuck explaining the same things over and over to your team […]