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Real estate financing for investors and non-conventional situations. Easy conditions. High LTC/LTV. Learn more at soundcapital.com

01/12/2026

Nearly 3 out of 4 builders say financing delays slow their projects down.

Not because the deal is bad.
Because the timing is.

While materials cost more and schedules stretch, capital often moves too slowly to keep up. That gap hits cash flow first, then momentum.

Sound Capital works with builders who need funding to move when the job site moves. Real timelines. Real conversations. Capital is built around how you actually build.

If financing keeps slowing things down, it might be time to rethink the structure.

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400,000 Open Construction Jobs That No One Is Talking About with Mark Pursell - Builder Straight Talk Podcast 01/09/2026

Somewhere along the way, we decided there was only one definition of success.

It was quiet.
It was well-intentioned.
And it changed everything.

Young people were told, directly and indirectly, that building with your hands meant you had fallen short. The trades did not fail a generation. We pushed that generation away.

That reality is at the center of a powerful conversation on Builder Straight Talk, hosted by Michael Krisa , featuring Mark Pursell. Mark spent fourteen years helping run the National Association of Home Builders, including oversight of the International Builders’ Show, and watched firsthand as the industry grew while the workforce pipeline quietly broke.

NAHB saw early that this was not just a labor issue. It was an exposure issue. When students never see construction as a real option, they never get the chance to choose it.

But when that exposure returns, everything changes. Tools in hand. Real builders. Real futures. Construction stops feeling abstract.

The trades were never a backup plan.
We just stopped showing what was possible.

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400,000 Open Construction Jobs That No One Is Talking About with Mark Pursell - Builder Straight Talk Podcast Mark Pursell has had one of those careers that makes you wonder how it all fits together. Hockey player in Michigan. Door-to-door 401k salesman. Construction finance guy who traveled to 85 countries. CEO of the Premium Cigar Association, where he built a cigar lounge in Washington, D.C. and used it....

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