Good news, ladies. I just expanded Lesson 1 in the free course, The GC Legal and Financial Foundation, with more free details you can actually use. More on business structure, bank accounts, insurance, contracts, scopes, paying yourself, and keeping job money in its job, plus checklists and a second payment schedule example. Go check it out in the Classroom, and tell me in the comments what you are going to fix first.

Hi Ree and everyone! I’m Teoy, owner of I Speak Housing Solutions. I’m based in Southern California and own properties in Conroe, Texas, where I provide furnished housing for corporate travelers, professionals, and families displaced by insurance claims. I’m currently building my first ground up duplex...the first of many! By day, I’m an IT project manager, so coordinating teams, budgets, and deadlines is what I do. Now I’m learning how that translates when the deliverable has a foundation and a roof. 😂 My biggest challenge right now is understanding who I’m hiring, what their price includes, and who’s actually responsible for the work. After purchasing materials separately and learning more about crew costs, I realized I hadn’t fully understood the layers of subcontracting and GC fees in some of my bids. Apparently, some lessons come with an invoice! 🤦🏽‍♀️😂 I’m happy to pay for expertise, coordination, and quality work. I also want to ask better questions, understand my numbers, and have clear expectations before the work starts. I joined to learn how to find and vet dependable subs, compare bids, document scopes and payments, and build a reliable team I can grow with across future projects. Saving money matters, but so does having people who communicate, show up, and stand behind their work. Glad to be here and ready to learn, with an active build to put these lessons into practice!

Good morning, family. I am still taking this in. Yesterday we went from our first 3 members to 33 in one day, and we are now at 38 strong. I am so grateful for every one of you who showed up, shared your story, and lifted each other up. I built this community so we would not have to figure this business out alone. Here is what we offer together, real teaching you can use on a job, not teasers. Bidding with real markup and margin, change orders in writing, vetting subs, cash flow and draw schedules, and real talk about the jobs that keep us up at night. Bring your numbers, bring your stuck job, we will work through it together. Separately, with time, if you need me on your own personal task, your own bid, your own job, your own takeoff, I have ways to work with you one on one. You will find those in the pinned post, no pressure at all, start here first and learn with us. Now I want us talking to each other. In the comments, tell us who you are, what you do, where you are based, and what your interests are. What are you building, or learning, or trying to get better at right now? Read each other's intros, reply to somebody, find your people in here. We found our tribe, let us act like it. And ladies, is there anything you'd like for me to discuss today? Tell me what you want to hear about, and I'll talk about it.