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This podcast will give you tips to becoming a builder of choice to your trade partners, customers and your employees. We will discuss topics from management philosopies to how to maintain strong relationships with your trades.
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Ep. 37 | The Cycle Time Advantage: More Profit, Less Chaos (opens the original)
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Emma Wildermuth welcomes Dwight Sandlin, Chairman and Co-Founder of Signature Homes, to discuss how a deliberate focus on cycle time reshaped the company's operations and financial performance. After beginning to rigorously measure build times, Signature Homes reduced its cycle time from 135 days to 100 days per home. Dwight shares the specific changes behind those results—from restructuring framing and rough mechanical work to creating stronger trade partner incentives and adopting a “controlla
Ep. 36 | Homeownership, Community and the American Dream: Thinking Outside the Box to Make Homeownership Possible for More Families (opens the original)
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Emma Wildermuth sits down with David Battany, Director of Capital Markets at Guild Mortgage and former chair of the Mortgage Bankers Association's Residential Board of Governors, to unpack what's driving the housing affordability crisis. David breaks it down to a "math problem": rising home prices, climbing payments, and down payment barriers, made more urgent by a Fed study showing 39% of U.S. adults couldn't cover a $1,000 emergency expense. David shares how Guild's new equity-share mortgage l
Ep. 35 | From Success to Significance: Building a Legacy Through Homes for HOPE (opens the original)
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Emma Wildermuth, President of Shinn Group and host of the Builder of Choice™ Insights Podcast, welcomes Jeff Rutt , Founder, President & CEO of Keystone Custom Homes and Founder & Chair of Hope International, along with Matthew Baehr , Executive Director of Homes for HOPE. Together, they share how a 1997 mission trip to Ukraine inspired the creation of Hope International and its mission to empower entrepreneurs through microfinance. They also discuss the origins of Homes for HOPE, where builders
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