With over 30 years of residential building under his belt, local home builder Brad Acheson leads the Stroud Homes Dubbo team to bring award-winning home designs to the region. With great communication and customer service at the forefront of what we do, Stroud Homes Dubbo would love to talk to you about building a beautiful, modern family home.
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My name is Brad Acheson, I’ve got Stroud Homes Dubbo, and my building background is, basically, over 30 years, where I did my apprenticeship and mainly focused in residential building, to where I gained my builder’s license, and have been building houses since 2001.
So, basically, I chose the Stroud Homes franchise, to give me more systems. In my old business, we sort of lacked a lot of systems. The Voxer app that Stroud has, is unreal for client liaison with. It really saves a lot of time and effort going backwards. You’re not waiting on calls to be returned. You can get answers sort of straight away, so that’s a game changer. The systems as well, with the four-wheeler quantities, all that sort of stuff, knowing that I’m quoting in a more accurate fashion, rather than just being a little bit more blasé with square meter rates and stuff like that.
The other thing that’s really good, is the support I found from the guys. Scott, my manager, he’s been up a little bit to Dubbo, quite a number of times, being able to get me going and under systems. I’ve had a little bit of trouble getting my head around things, and they’ve been fantastic, with Zoom meetings to get around. They’ve really helped me a lot.
I decided to purchase a building franchise after it became, where, that we were lacking in our planning capabilities, as well at our marketing. So, I wanted to try and align myself with someone who has a great lot of plans, as well as Endless Marketing, so we can push our product out there to our local people. One of our biggest reasons for drawing towards Stroud Homes was their number of plans, over 150 in the range. A lot of their plans for acreage, as well as dual lots, granny flats, that really suited our Dubbo area.
The ample and established marketing did attract me to Stroud Homes, especially their zebra, with their black and white quotes. Having that sort of branding on vehicles and signage around town will help. So, since taking on Stroud Homes, all the systems that we have has allowed me to start working in the business, rather than on the business, and got me off the tools, and started being able to manage things a lot better than how we were previously doing it, which then enables me to have more time for my family and friends.
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