Planning for profit

摘要

For some custom home professionals, the skills needed to design and build their clients' dream homes comes naturally. For others, it's knowing how to make a profit that is programmed into their DNA. The key to success is the ability to master both skill sets at once. It's possible to be good at making profit while not knowing how to create high-quality homes, but even those who create the highest-quality homes will fail if they do not turn a profit. So how do successful, profitable custom home firms do it? Residential Design & Build talked to managers of a design firm and two custom builder businesses to find out. A simple way to ensure profit is building it into a project's budget, which is much easier said than done.