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Midweek with Tyler: Transparency in My Renovation Budgets

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Modern Craftsman

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Tyler shares his business philosophy of transparency in construction projects. He emphasizes creating detailed budgets, scopes of work, and schedules to track costs.  He also talks about his approach to reducing stress allowing him to have honest conversations with his customers. 

 

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Podcast Produced By:

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Music:

"Dessert" by Nate Gusakov

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm okay with just making my rate, making my markups, getting paid for my time.

0:07.3

That's the way that I want to work my projects, whether I'm doing 10 projects at a time,

0:12.6

or whether I'm doing one project at a time, I want my business to be a direct reimbursement

0:18.4

for the costs and the time that go into that. And that's not really exchanging time for money,

0:23.5

right? You could scale this, but I just, I want everyone to get paid the effort that they put in.

0:31.0

And this is where transparency comes in. I can't do that if I don't develop a transparent

0:36.0

budget, a transparent schedule, and a transparent scope of work and deliver that to my customers.

0:40.7

I have nothing to go off of.

0:42.4

I still only have one headphone that's working. For some reason, my right one stopped working.

0:54.8

I don't know. It worked a couple of weeks ago, and then it just stopped, but I'm rolling with it.

1:00.4

I'm not slowing down. I did order a new, a new headset, but it has not come yet. So I'm

1:08.7

rolling with the single earbud. I feel like I'm a DJ right now, although you guys are just

1:13.2

listening to this. You can, can watch this on my YouTube channel, TRG home concept. So if you

1:19.6

have not, you can watch all of these recordings on there. So go check that out. Doug has been helping

1:26.0

me out and uploading them to my YouTube channel. What else do we have going on here? Oh,

1:34.0

let's see. Philly's made the postseason. Super pumped about that. If you guys don't know, I am a big

1:46.1

baseball fan for quite a few years now. They made it in as a wild card. They're playing the Marlins

1:55.3

tonight three game series. Pretty pumped for that. Postseason baseball is always one of my favorite

2:01.6

times of the year. So by the time you guys are hearing this, they would have already played game

2:05.7

one. So wish them luck. I'm excited to watch the Phil's play. I'm excited to have a fun October

2:12.5

and playoff baseball. Hopefully they they make another deeper on this year. Last year was amazing.

2:17.5

And I'm hoping this year is a little bit better. We have softball going on in our house. We

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