Bricklayer to Blue-Collar Empire

Every business can be improved, right?

Sure. Absolutely. Yep.

Right, right. And, and, and we do make some changes, but they're, but they're obviously minor and they're always going to be beneficial. And typically the changes we make are things that can be easily improved from synchrony of some of our other companies. For instance, like hey, you know our general contracting company, right.

Like when we bought them, it's like now all your masonry is going to be done from here, all your roofing is going to be done from here. And the best part about that is like tell us what your number is so we can make sure we hit it and we can be underneath that for you. So you make money and they make money or it's like you know, some healthcare.

You know, we had a. Because you know, my companies are all under a holdings company. A lot of these com. A lot of these sellers didn't offer health care. Well, I have to, by law I have to offer them all health care now too.

So like there are certain things that have to change, you know.

Well, that all sounds like back office stuff and kind of behind the scenes and benefits, which is awesome and great to hear, but the kind of the workflow of the business or the management or the people, the stuff that the employees actually interact or affects their day to day sounds like that stuff you

really don't touch pretty much stays the same. Like I said, I mean we, we really, we really take a look at these companies ahead of time, you know, hey, our guys, you know, do I see one, do I see their trucks hanging out somewhere locally for an hour at a, at a pizza shop? You know, I mean it just.

That's that, I mean that's not a huge indicator, but we talk to them a lot and it's like, you know, their process has always seemed pretty well and you know, there are things that definitely need tweaked once you get into a business after a month or two or three or whatever. But I mean that things get tweaked from the old owner too. Things that weren't working, you know.

Yeah. So in other words, you diligence these companies to try to really buy a high quality company that wouldn't need a lot of change. You're not trying to buy Perfect.

Yes.