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Scott Sedam
Waste Not: Save Money By Getting Rid Of Waste.
By:Scott Sedam
Bankruptcies continue as home builders make extra-ordinary efforts to salvage the smallest profit. Efforts focus on refinancing or selling land and finding capital to build, while sales incentives reach almost comical extremes. Overheads are being slashed and house costs turned inside out. Most have conducted multiple rounds of rebids with suppliers and trades to the point that, as one builder lamented, “We can’t go back to that well … it’s dry.” But is it?
It’s true that the gimme-10 percent-more-or-I-shoot well may be dry. Yet just a little further down, a bit harder to see, and requiring a lot more knowledge to tap is another source overflowing with margin. I am referring to waste in product and process, and it’s so much a part of home building that most don’t even know it’s there. Read More
