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by onlyrealcuzzo 1311 days ago
> Fixing up homes is very inefficient and usually done by mom and pops.

This doesn't ipso-facto make it inefficient.

There's evidence that construction does not become meaningfully more efficient with scale [1]. At GIGANTIC scales, you're looking at maybe 10% savings. And these scales are quite rare in the US & the EU - mostly only happening in Asia.

True, on the largest investment of most people's lives - 10% is something...

Anyway - you're not going to get great returns with layers of high-paid management and beat mom & pops by much.

[1] https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/why-are-there-so-...