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Build Better is a podcast about how real operators think when the stakes are high. Hosted by Matt Vetter, the show explores leadership, standards, accountability, and decision-making in construction, development, and business.No hype. No shortcuts.
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Episode 28: • The Building You Did Not Build Is the Most Expensive One You Own (opens the original)
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Waiting for construction costs to come back down is themost expensive decision an owner can make. Labor is a demographic problem, not a cyclical one. A market correction will never unretire someone. Materials spike and then set a new floor, and that floor becomes the new normal about four years later. And the cost around the building,entitlement, permitting, third party review, insurance, has roughly doubled the timeline that used to get an owner from zero to boots on the ground. The part nobody
Episode 27: You Don't Have a Board. You Have An Audience. (opens the original)
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Eight construction company owners. None of them work for me. None of them can fire me. All of them have seen my financials. Next week I fly to Denver to spend three days in a room with my board of advisors. In this episode: what a board of advisors actually is and what it is not, the three reasons most owners never build one, the three seats every board needs, and the stuff I am walking in carrying. If everyone on your board agrees with you, you do not have a board. You have an audience. Build B
Episode 26: Hiring Interns Is Not Helping the Industry (opens the original)
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Tomorrow I write a check for $20,000 to the Southeast Michigan Construction Academy, to be cut up into scholarships for people entering trade school. I do not know yet where it lands. I am fine with that. This one is about the difference between funding the tradesand recruiting for yourself, what it actually cost to build the Build Better Foundation into a real 501(c)(3), and why more than 90 percent of the people we write checks to will never work for me. Build Better Foundation:schaferconstruc
Episode 25: The Bill Came 12 Months Later (opens the original)
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Twelve months before I lost my temper on a phone call, I made the decision that actually caused the problem. A hire made out of desperation. A client who was a bulldog, and I knew it before I signed. A year spent as a pressure relief valve instead of running my company. The explosion took five minutes. The mistake underneath it took twelve monthsand cost a good man his job. Propping somebody up in the wrong seat is not kindness. It is delay, and it gets paid in their time.
Episode 24: You Do Not Have a Time Problem: Bill Reiman on Building a Team That Buys It Back (opens the original)
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Bill Reiman did not inherit RK Reiman Construction. He earned it, over roughly twenty years, and he and his brother onlybecame owners three years ago. In this episode he walks through the whole arc: growing up in his father's concrete yard outside Chicago, the family's move to Southwest Florida in 1995, the years as an underpaid laborer, the one conversation with his dad that redirected his entire life, and what it takes to run a luxury home building company, a realestate practice with SERHANT,
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