Attainable housing.
Built with velocity.
Systems for the high-net-worth individuals, developers, and landowners who demand clarity, speed, and excellence — from the contractor who builds the units and knows what they cost this month.
We underwrite to a 10% gross yield. Completed build-to-rent projects have delivered 12–15% yield on cost — the teardowns show the math.
Consulting & construction intelligence
Production housing & attainable builds
Deal & development structuring
Carrying forward a legacy.
Building a scalable system.
Austin Smith leads Bids Contracting as successor to his mentor, Steve Manweiler — carrying four decades of building standards forward while re-engineering the company into something that scales: repeatable, measured, built to hold quality at volume. Deming’s discipline, applied to production housing.
“I didn’t start the company. I’m scaling it.”
What a Wichita build actually costs — taken apart to the dollar.
One real deal a month: land basis, trade-by-trade cost, timeline, and the yield it throws. Build cost benchmarks an out-of-state investor can’t get anywhere else. Email only. No pitch.