Hey y'all, this is Brian and Stephan with Bradman homes.
We are a custom home builder in the Texas Hill Country and we
are starting this podcast series because we have found a huge gap
in the knowledge and information that's out there with regards to
the custom home building process in general.
So we're excited to start this and share with you our knowledge
and our earnings and our mistakes along the way.
There's been plenty of us far, but we were, we're looking to
share any in everything so that we can help you in your journey
building. A custom home.
So Steven, why don't you just quickly introduce yourself and
talk a little bit more about our company?
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, thanks for the
introduction. Like you said, I'm Steven.
And yeah, we created this company.
Brevin home. A little over two years ago,
actually, we're coming up on three years and Robin Holmes is
a design and Custom Home Building Company here, in
Central Texas, focus on areas west of Austin and North of San
Antonio. So really kind of in Texas Hill
Country area, beautiful area. But yeah, we love what we do.
And, you know, that was part of the reason why we wanted to
create this podcast, to provide more value, to not only the
listeners, but future homeowners for us as well.
So, Yeah, with that being said, I mean yeah a little bit more
about my background, you know I we both you know, our father
grew up in or we grew up in a home where our dad was a
construction manager for a Home Building Company here in Texas
and so that got our our feet a little wet, you know, are we
dipped our toes into that home? Building world as kids and grew
up around that and then after we both graduated from the
University of Texas, we You know, both were very involved in
home building. So that progressed and I work
for production home builder for a little while.
Got some reps there and we both combined our talents to start
this company. That's awesome.
It's been it's been fun. But we got we got a lot more to
do a lot more to accomplish. Absolutely.
Yeah. It's got over his gun down.
Yeah. So we've alluded to a little bit
about why we started this, but let's elaborate on that a little
bit more. Why are we starting this
podcast? I mean, what are we trying to
provide? Absolutely.
Yeah, I mean that's the ultimate question, right?
And why are we starting this podcast?
And I think basically, as As we've been in this industry and
especially the custom side of things over the past two plus
years. We've really seen a gap in in
just a available knowledge and information on future
homeowners, how they even start the process, you know, how do I
search for a custom home builder?
How do I know that? Finding a good one, right?
What are the different kinds of contracts and you know what's
the process of building a custom home?
I mean, there's so many different things that people
just don't know, and don't talk about, You know, I think you and
I maybe we can both agree that we just almost think that it's
common sense but it's really not, you know, we've been around
it for so long that it's something that we feel like we
need to educate listeners and other people that are interested
in building, a custom home. Just so that they are well,
informed and don't feel like they're getting taken advantage
of which unfortunately a lot of people do end up feeling that
way and you talk about getting taken advantage of.
I think you'll hear over many of the Casts that we create.
I mean, there's a lot of things that go into making that
decision of, who do you trust the key word being trust to
build your home. So you'll hear that word many
times. But it's really important and
hopefully we can give you some insight into it.
Some information. And the right questions, you
could ask your Builder to feel more comfortable with that trust
piece. So yeah.
Who is this podcast for? I mean, who, who we try?
Who do? We want to have our listeners?
Be? Yeah, that's a really important
question for us to determine at this point, right?
And so people can get a feeling for if this podcast is something
for them or not. Yeah, I think our target
audience is going to be somebody who is, you know, slightly
interested or extremely interested in building a custom
home, right? And I specify it to primarily
custom. Homes.
Because the process is so much different than just building a
production home or being involved in a build with a
production Builder. You know, there's not nearly as
many decisions that need to be made and, you know, usually the
production Builders have systems processes procedures that are
very, very set. So that kind of rules that
listener out. I would say.
But our Target listeners, I would project would be people
that are like I said, anywhere from slightly interested.
Custom home, building all the way up to people, they're ready
to build or have already built a custom home.
You know, just people that are seeking more information on that
front and I think we can make the differentiation now that,
you know, this podcast isn't going to be something that is
going to be in the Weeds on building science.
You know. It's not going to talk about the
best waterproofing membranes on the outside of your home, you
know, as while some people may care about that, we think that
there's a huge gap in the market on people just knowing more Or
about like we said, you know, selecting a custom home builder
in the whole process and, you know, the budgeting aspect of it
and other things that come with building a custom home and
leaving the building science of to the custom home builders that
you've hired to do the job, right?
That's what they should specialize in.
We have found that there's a lot of great material, great
podcasts out there. Great individuals that do a
really good job explaining Construction science and
breaking it down and not getting too technical.
So yeah, yeah. That's alright Point.
What we do want to share a lot of information?
What we hope is valuable information throughout every
single podcast that we publish. Where can this be used?
I mean, what where can it be used?
Give it to do, they have to be in Central Texas?
What are the differences between central Texas where we are and
the rest of the country? Yeah, our idea for this podcast
is to be Universal, right? We're not going to narrow it
down so much your Niche, it down to a certain Market that it
rules out, listeners, that are listening say in, you know,
North Dakota, right? Or even California, Florida, you
know, all different aspects or points of the United States.
We want to make this podcast so that it can, you know, really
help, people, no matter where you live, what state you're in
whatever you municipality or governing bodies.
You're responsible for your custom, you know, the area
you're building, a custom home in, you know, we really want to
make it Universal. I think that's the best word for
it. So although we have our
experience and you know, we're going to be talking maybe a few
specifics of Central Texas overall.
We're going to have many valuable nuggets that people can
take away that they can use in their own hometowns or wherever
they want to build their custom homes.
It's a good point in regardless of who you choose to build your
custom home, We're in the country.
The process is the process, it might, it might differ slightly
based off of like, invention the municipality, but there's you
still have an idea or your dream home in your head and you still
have to get it all the way to completion, where you have this,
this beautiful home in front of you and you taking over the
keys, right? So while things, some things may
differ, there's there's a lot of commonality Across the country
but just a lack of information that we don't to that, we want
to get out to anybody that wants to listen and find Value in it.
Yeah, absolutely. What, what, what should, what
should our users expect to take away from from our podcast, my
what's, what? Some of those valuable insights
that they can take away? Yeah, definitely something we've
thought long and hard about, you know, we don't want to pump out
content that waste, you know, our listeners time.
So we want to make it as value-packed and useful
information as possible. And with that being said, you
know, we think that the key takeaways from our podcasts are
going to be Just more knowledge. Overall, you know, in a more
busy future homeowners are clients that are about to sign
building contracts feeling more confident about the process,
because they're more educated, they're more knowledgeable and
they don't feel like there's so many unknowns, right?
We're going to be a resource that they can refer back to on
certain aspects of their build and as they're going through the
timeline, you know they can listen to our podcast over and
over reference them maybe you can bring them up.
With their own builder, you know, if there's questions or
conflict or anything like that, you know.
We hope to be a source of unbiased third party knowledge
that they can take and use as they please write.
In really just keeping it. Very matter of fact, you know we
don't want any opinions thrown into it and really opening
people's eyes to. Well even the people that are
like you said, slightly interested in building a custom
home, is it right for you? You know, maybe it's not even
the right process for you. And maybe you feel more
comfortable going with a production Builder or buying a
pre-existing home, you know? So we'll talk through that as
well and give the people information to make the most
informed decision you know, every step of the way.
Yeah. And I like what you said there's
custom home building isn't for everybody.
In understanding the costs, the expectations, what it entails as
early as possible will help people would say this isn't for
me, make that decision sooner rather than later.
Absolutely man, I'm really excited.
There's I've got a lot of ideas in my head.
There's there's so many topics. I mean, you talk about the
differences in cost per square foot when you get when you get
multiple quotes from from Builders.
How do you, how do you compare one versus the other?
I mean, that could be several hour-long podcast, maybe several
day long podcast. Just just talking through that
one question, albeit not simple but a question that is asked
every single day to every single Builder.
So my head spinning on all kinds of topics and we certainly look
for for that listener feedback. If there's something you want to
talk about, Lee will be all over it.
So we want this to be a two-way street.
And again, as much value, as we can can provide you, it is our
ultimate goal. Yeah, great points.
And yeah, just to reiterate that that yeah, this is all about the
listeners and so if they want to hear a topic that, you know, we
mentioned in passing and when hear more details Or even things
that we haven't thought of, you know, please feel free to bring
them to our attention and we love to dive deeper into them
and talk about those kind of topics on this podcast because
this is ultimately for those listeners that want to learn
more about the process of building a custom home.
Well, let's we'll wrap it up here but one last question and
accountability question for both of us.
What's our, what's our? Our goal of our frequency of
pumping these podcasts out episodes now?
Yeah. Yeah.
They're hearing it first. I hear that.
Yeah, this is going to be a weekly podcast.
So, you know, we'll record weekly and not sure exactly what
day those will be posted yet, but it's going to be something
that we're going to try to keep between probably 20 and 25
minutes. You know, to be able to listen
to on your morning, commute or, you know, during your morning
coffee or whatever it is, right? You know, listen to our podcast,
gain some knowledge and then go on with your day, you know,
we're going to try to keep it as concise and straight to the
point as possible. Just so that we pack as much
information, Nation into each episode but also keeping it very
segmented, so that you can easily reference back to what
you need to look at while you're building your custom home time
is money. So but that being said,