“We were losing $500 a house the way we were doing it. And that is a business where you don't do it with employees. You do it with subcontract labor. And we were not set up to do that. So we just couldn't compete. And we got out of that business pretty early”

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stopped doing residential new construction because they were losing $500 per house and not set up for subcontract labor

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