based on where I stand, the total job cost of date, and what I have left and what extras we have,

then I'm actually going to get this job done for less than the original budgeted cost of the project.

Welcome back to another midweek modern craftsman.

I'm looking at myself right now, and i have on a winter hat and my harnished sweatshirt and i feel like i'm fully bundled up but maybe my office is just cold

and it's a little cold here in new jersey but today i have a really exciting podcast for all of you.

Really, really exciting.

It's on budgeting.

Let's talk about budgeting because that's the most exciting topic that I can think of.

No, all kidding aside, I was sitting in my office.

It's my paperwork day.

It's Tuesday catching up on things.

And I'm getting to the final invoicing for my porch project that I'm

wrapping up and I figure to be a good opportunity to dig into what that looks like for all of you.

So that's what we're going to dive into today, budgeting what my budget looks like, how I balance

things out, how I maintain that budget, how I stay on track.

I believe I did this for this job early on as far as what my budget looks like.

I figured it would be a good idea as I'm wrapping things up, how I structured this.

So I think we all talk about budget and Nick and I talk about maintaining a budget and how a budget is a living, breathing part of our

construction process. But what does it look like in real life? So first off, I am T&M. So what I'm doing is

I'm establishing a budget.

I'm doing pre-construction.

That's a separate cost.

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