The customer is the only one left to squeeze, Lennar and others have already squeezed every penny they can out of their subs and suppliers.

I sell construction work mostly as a subcontractor, and I can definitely tell which of my customers rely on squeezing their subs to maximize their margins (JCI, Siemens, Honeywell and other global multinationals) and those that would like us both to make decent money (pretty much everyone else that doesn’t have a market cap in the billions, excluding some GCs I’ll not name) and while the big boys have a lot of work, doing projects with the latter companies is a lot more enjoyable.