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15 Tips For Starting Your Own Roof and Guttering Business

Construction Marketing

Insurance, liability, and workers’ compensation . When this happens, it’s vital to save profit from busy seasons to pay the expenses for the off-season. . Other costs: Insurance, taxes, advertising, vehicle maintenance, dumpster fees, and petrol. 10) Business bank account and credit card. Labor costs.

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Green Buildings are Subsidizing Conventional Buildings Stymying Climate Progress

Green Building Law Update

The financial value of green buildings is well documented, from commanding higher rents, greater occupancy rates, and increased occupant satisfaction, to lower operating costs for everything from reduced insurance premiums and less energy utilized, easily resulting in an increased return on investment of more than 9% over conventional building.

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Highly Profitable Contractors Control Who Receives Company Information

Contractor Bookkeeping

The primary keeper of all the documents is you, your spouse, your employees, your suppliers, your bank, your credit card company. General Liability Insurance Provider. I know this is not a statement that any contractor wants to hear about their bookkeeping. It is easier to blame the bookkeeper for missing information.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

INSURANCE |. Bank lines of credit are lifelines for many contractors, yet convincing a bank to provide or renegotiate a line of credit is not easy. Building your case beforehand can certainly help and makes you look better in the eyes of the bank. Crunch the numbers – Banks like proactive business owners.

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Toxic and dysfunctional industry awaits its revolution

Construction Law

The fundamental issues remain – clients are convinced that the industry is inefficient and prices have to be held down; main contractors compete ruthlessly on price and take work with little chance of profits and sub contract what they can down the supply chain to those least able to shoulder the risk.

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Starting Profitable Construction Company Unique Secrets Revealed

Contractor Bookkeeping

There are a number of people who pass out advice on how to start a profitable construction company; however, very few have actually done it and fewer still had a clear understanding of where they were making or losing money and fewer yet have ever gotten past the point of owning a J.O.B. The really good news they are on the banks payroll.

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How a Construction-to-Permanent Loan Impacts Contractors & Lenders

Levelset

There are deadlines for invoice submissions for a monthly bank withdrawal. If the contractor doesn’t meet the deadline, the invoice might not be sent to the bank and paid until the following month. The borrower pays the contractor for the project’s expenses plus a profit margin in a project governed by a cost-plus contract.