@Account Closed thank you for your comment! Hopefully we can navigate this next step together! I agree with you, funding is an obvious hurtle. I recently wrote a post regarding our two year reflection, and I believe there is a flipping triangle made of three components (funding, the house, and your team). It seems your hurdles are with two of these three components. For funding, have you approached banks, or investors yet? Personally, I think your second point depends on how good and how big your current GC's team is. For us, my dad is a GC, but he is supposed to only handle emergencies, otherwise he manages all of the subs we hire. With this set-up he is able to handle more than one house at a time (or at least that is our current plan, and once we move forward we will test this theory). Getting a GC license and hiring a crew is not as easy as it sounds. Unless you have GC experience (and you have the time to dedicate to the project), a lot of things can go wrong, even with purely cosmetic flips. I am not saying that you wouldn't be able to learn how to do it without prior experience; however, testing your GC's skill set while simultaneously taking on a new challenge of scaling may double the challenges you face, and may ultimately cause major impacts on your business. I think the best way to answer the question, is how much is it worth to you. In other words, would you hire someone with your experience to be a GC knowing that it would cost you minimal, but problems might occur, or alternatively would it be more cost effective to hire one of these high in demand GC's, and find cost savings elsewhere. Not sure if I really helped, or not, but I know the more you talk about something, the more ideas will be generated, and hopefully one will work out! Best of luck, and please keep me posted! It is nice to know we are both growing (and doing something right)!
