How Builders Build

I joined my father's homebuilding business out of college, and alongside my two brothers, I had the pleasure of working with him for 24 years. He taught us the fundamentals of honest business. When he passed away earlier this year, we resolved to carry on his legacy and his ethics.

- Brad Haubert

A few weeks after his death, one of my brother's neighbors found three nail bags in his basement. They'd come from the lumber yard that my father started in the early 1970s and when the neighbor gave us the bags, it reminded us of just how powerful and profitable our father's ethics could be.

Here is the story of his lumber yard.