Enjoyed working with you in 1999 on your first website. Great story and happy to be a part of your amazing story and success. All the best, Brad!

Even though I'm not a builder, a contractor or anything in the building trade I just love watching building videos. I also watch Stud Pak on KZfaq. They build homes and are now building a huge home for their son. The sons work with the dad. You channel is fun and entertaining for me. I'm 63 and a retired nurse.

I am a new general contractor in Nashville, TN. Me running across your video was a literal Godsend. It was the encouragement I needed to continue to move forward with my first new build, which is getting off the ground in the next couple of weeks. Thank you so much for opening your playbook, sharing your experiences, and offering so many valuable insights. I will be watching all your videos! Thank you Brad the Builder!

Great information! You're a natural born salesman and a great communicator.

Glad you finally did this video! I remember asking you for this over a year ago, thanks for the insight Brad!

Great video! Civil/Structural engineer here looking to get my own development business off the ground. I've had the same idea wrt building spec homes that I could move in to as a way to limit risk starting out. You totally validated the idea! I also love the tip on buying existing lots from owners on a subordination strategy. So much great info in this one video!

That video was amazing. Seeing how you built your business was very informative and very interesting. Thanks Brad for sharing your life with us.

Brad! You outdid yourself with this video. So much information and great stories. Thank you! And please more videos!

I am a newly licensed GC in TN. Just beginning my journey. You and a few other KZfaqrs ignited my passion for this industry! I strive to be in the same position as you one day.

Great video, Brad. This information is valuable for anyone wanting to start a business from the ground up. They can easily take these points and apply it to their trade. Loved the bank robber story. I wonder if he ever got caught? No chance you remember the guy's name, do you, haha!? As funny as it is to learn that you almost sold a house to a bank robber, imagine if you DID! Think of what you could have done with the reward money🤣. Great to see you, friend. All the best, as always. Heather🇨🇦 I hope this reads ok. I am the lucky owner of a concussion these days - something I'm not very fond of and wouldn't want to give it away to anyone (that I like, haha).

Great video Brad, thank you !! I may not always comment on every one of your videos, but I am subscribed an I also click the Like Button on every one of your videos that I watch👍🤠‼

Good evening Sir I've been subscribed to your channel for quite some time now and I don't really reply comment on a lot of them (mainly due to the fact that I'm a man of few words LoL) but I do however like and share absolutely every one of them, and I saw in one of your replys that you had thought that this video would have come across as boring but I must say Sir that during the entire duration of time that I have been subscribed to and watching your content I can honestly say without a shadow of a doubt that I don't think that you have yet to ever put out any video that came across as being anywhere even remotely flippin close to being boring, they're always very enjoyable and also very informative aswell and I just wanted to say thank you very much for each and every one of them and to please please please continue providing your content absolutely each and every style they're all very much worth it aswell as very much welcoming and appreciated and again thank you for all that you do Sir and I God bless you and your family and I hope y'all have a wonderful evening

Brad you should make a video or go live and tell all of your crazy stories from the past 35 years of being a home builder.

Really enjoyed this video. Very interesting and informative. Crazy story also. Thank for this Brad

Hi Brad, definitely enjoyed the video. Thumbs up on a separate series about crazy stories; add those in once and a while. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!

Great content as usual

Great video Brad. Definitely want to see a video of crazy stories. It would be very helpful for all of us. Thanks again 😊

Very enlightening and entertaining! Thanks Brad!

so much better than HGTV

Loved This! Thanks for sharing the Wisdom Brad!

Thank you Brad!👍🏻✌🏻

Thanks Brad. A lot of great information. You did very well for yourself.

Awesome Brad I love your videos and have been watching for awhile I am a 22 year old aspiring homebuilder with 5 years experience doing all kinds of different work in new houses I would love to see more educational type videos maybe even a podcast because I have so much learn and it's very overwhelming.

Brad I’m glad you are not only a Builder but a influencer, love your video’s

Brad, That’s, sincerely wonderful and well summarized start-up background story you have! I hope to meet you one day, check out your incredible building sites,lol, and share some of our learning experiences….keep on doing what you’re great at doing👏

Good info Brad. Thank you

Thanks for some more knowledge towards the next few projects iv got going on. Learned a lot

Thanks Brad! I sold tickets & Arrest for 30 yrs before becoming a trim carpenter! I always found I enjoyed being a 1 st responder ? It’s a calling ! Your calling was putting ppl into a home creating or adding to a neighborhood! God always puts us in our place if we head to that tug! Great story ! You see for many years I served on a unit called “ SIU”. Where we pursued career criminals ? Bank Robbers, murders, major gang members or a very profitable drug dealer where we arrested him and seized their assets? So I probably knew some of that guys friends ? Probably not a bad guy? Just a bad business plan?

Much respect for your journey in business 🇺🇸

Can you explain drawing from lot value from bank again?

Awesome video Brad. I am sure this one will help a lot of people with all this information. Great job and you definitely have a wealth of knowledge

Very educational video, and very helpful for me. I want to become a custom home builder so I really appreciate this!

Wow!! Whatta awesome video. So informative Brad! Love this kinda video...I feel smarter, lol...thanks brother...

Great insight!! thank you

Different type of video Brad🎉 but very interesting. Awesome as always 💞🎉

Love this!

BRAD THE BUILDER FOR PRESIDENT.!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Brad great video, and a lot of great information & very good stories about starting a business. 😊

Well Done Brad🎉. You really threw yourself into the game and came out on top,Kuddos friend 👍❣️. JO JO IN VT 💞

Great video man.

Brad wonderful video and I can tell you are very genuine and speaking from learned experience!! Hopefully your knowledge helps some youngins coming up in the world. I remember being hungry lol I’m pretty content now but still love reading informative subjects. Loved your bank robber story I’m a retired nurse I’ve got a few too lol

Too tall for my hair? 🤣 I love it! I'm so stealing that line!!

So glad there are builders like you. Alot if these big homes today are still boring. To me alot is no color are design. Landscaping is the worst. No colors a bush here and there rock ect I was told it's because rich people don't wanna do the work to plant different things and take care of them. Also the ones I use to clean out never had shades on there windows second floor bathrooms. I ask why they said them being across the lake couldn't see them. Ok at night with lights on I believe they can and there are some that might go the extra mile to see. Also removable shower heads no one had them. Try cleaning out a shower that holds 10 people with rinsing out with a cup!! Lol You have to know who to hire i had work done last summer updated things I fired 3 contractors in 2 weeks they not show are 4 hours late do it there way not mine you name it! One watching someone who knows what they are doing, and down to earth instead of being stuck up because you have made it. Congrats

I'd like to see the very first house you built.

Lots of great stories!! You really had to fight your way to the top…

Imagine if you would have called into America's Most Wanted and got the reward for the arrest of the bank robber. Crazy story Brad! 😜

Hey Brad, do you do any commercial projects. I haven’t seen you post a video of any. Can you answer why you don’t post them or why you don’t do any at all?

What brand LVP did you use in Flair's and your new house?

Just seen the intro.. vid should be longer awsome

It sounds like you used your brain and thought things out very thoroughly at the beginning. Collecting all the people and using their expertise worked out well. It just proves that you don't have to know everything you just have to know who to ask. Or in this case who to hire as the subcontractors. 👍🎺👍🎺

Finally

Hy hope you're doing well, I have a question, kindly mention it incrementally. How can I become a builder,what are the legal steps , explain it all , including timeframe.mention all the licenses ,is it helpful or necessary to take real estate salespersons license first?? Recommendations

Personally carpenters make the best builders. Carpenters are very knowledgeable about all facets of construction. Drives me crazy to see a realtor build because they have zero knowledge of building. I’m glad it worked for you. But I think your number one attribute is your a salesmen. I’m a great builder but I’m not a great salesman. Selling is a large part of building. I’ve seen all types of builders, police officers, firemen, stay at moms, realtors, landscapers, etc. The biggest problem I’ve seen with builders and why they fail. They over extend and rob Peter to pay Paul. Slow and steady is the name of the game. It’s like a slow moving train. Also you are correct about finding good subs, talk to the suppliers.

Your bank robber story reminded me of a story that happened to my family when I was 11 years old, my family and I went to Hawaii in 97’ and the FBI raided our house while we were gone because Andrew Cunanan (the guy that killed Gianni Versace) used my brother’s information as an alias to fly somewhere

brad i’m in college for construction management, aiming to be a pm for a home builders company in hopes to one day own my own company, do you think starting out as a pm will help

Great ideas, to bad I am now 70 years old. Good video and thank you much. 😅

Promo sm 😱

Man...the only homes i get to build are 150,000....