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half of this year, Scheffy remains focused on driving continuous improvement, a quality that’ ll be instrumental in its newest market expansion.
“ This year, we’ ve really been focusing on changing and perfecting our internal systems and procedures. My father’ s been very instrumental in that from both a business and legal standpoint, guiding us on the best way to protect our company, our subcontractors and out vendors,” Robert says.“ Our focus for the latter half of this year will be on implementing those systems, as well as finishing up existing projects and starting new ones. We currently have around $ 17 million under contract, up from around $ 9 million last December, and a lot of that comes from our relationships with architects and previous clients. conversation by homing in on the company’ s most important asset of all.
“ I want to thank my wife and my team, as well as Tommy Guedry, my framer. He’ s been full time with me for seven years now. He’ s a true craftsman and has taught me way more than I could’ ve learned in college; when it comes to construction, he’ s been a huge asset in allowing us to build the caliber of homes that we do,” he finishes.“ It’ s been 11 years, and the business has grown faster than I could’ ve ever imagined. I couldn’ t have done it without the support of the people behind me. They’ re the ones that make me look good.” ■
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“ We’ re expanding into New Orleans as we speak. We’ ve got two big projects scheduled, of which we’ ve teamed up with a leader in the New Orleans construction industry,” Robert reveals.“ They’ ve been a great asset in helping me do these projects from a management standpoint, which allows me to be in Baton Rouge; if I can’ t be in New Orleans, I know that they’ re there to fill that support role. New Orleans is a unique city; it’ s totally different than anywhere else and construction there is much the same. We’ re working on homes that were built in 1850, which are beautiful but tricky.
“ We’ ve also dabbled in some small infill developments, and we’ d like to do more of those projects in the city further down the road. It’ s hard to find land in Baton Rouge but being able to develop a whole neighborhood and sell it is something that I’ ve always wanted to do; it’ d be a great way to mass produce the product we provide.”
With the sun shining brightly on Scheffy’ s future, Robert concludes our
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