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  • Get a Clear View on Easily Overlooked Overhead
  • Do You Make Money in Design-Build? Here’s How to Tell
  • Designing for Dollars
  • Pinpoint Your A/R, and Lower Your Taxes
  • Design of the Times: Profit Center!
  • When Should Remodelers Switch to Cost-Plus Pricing?
  • These Problems Will Gobble Profits–Fast
  • Learning the ABCs of KPIs
  • What Price Is Right? How to Avoid Pricing Jobs Incorrectly
  • Rating the Financial Ratios: For Remodelers, Here Are the Top Five
  • How to Manage Ever-Increasing Premiums for Construction Insurance
  • Improving Profit Margins: Get a Grip
  • It’s Not Only Money: You Gotta Collect
  • For Remodelers, Debt Is Often a Killer; Here’s How to Survive It
  • The Ups and Downs of Accounting for Remodeling Revenue
  • Same Old, Same Old: Markups Make Margins
  • The High Profits of Low- or No-Carbon Construction
  • Want to Make Money? Stay in Control
  • The Price Is Right Only if You Take Overhead into Account
  • Remodelers: Should Checking FICO Be SOP?
  • Bulking Up Remodeling’s Bottom Line
  • Labor Lost? Are You Charging Enough for It?
  • How to Go with the (Cash) Flow
  • Right Price? Give Your a Business a Raise!
  • An Estimate by Another Name? Yes–and Put a Price on It!
  • To Make More Money, Remodelers, Be in Control
  • For Remodelers: Bit by Bit–Adding Profits One Step at a Time
  • Money’s Worth: Ratios to Stay in Touch With
  • How to Estimate When Lumber Prices Soar
  • By the Numbers: How to Create an Operating Budget
  • How Builders Can Finance a Growth Curve
  • Remodelers: Are You Making Money? Here’s How to Know
  • Numbers Game: How to Track Breakeven Effectively
  • Show Me the Money! How Builders Can Deal with Capital Questions
  • How to Plan in a Tanking Economy
  • Job Costs: Pay Attention to Detail
  • PE in HI? Hard to Believe, but It’s Happening
  • Dollars and Sense: Five Fantastically Important Fundamentals
  • How Gross! How to Track Gross Profit
  • Hovering Over Overhead Is Key to Managing Through Hard Times
  • How Architects Can Make Cents of the R&D Tax Credit
  • Data Analyzing Your Way to Lower Costs, Tighter Schedules
  • What’s Your Story? The Right One Can Mean More Revenue
  • Magnificent Seven: Attributes Everyone Selling Houses Should Have
  • For Estimators, ‘Free’ Is Not a Good Word
  • Housing Prices: Don’t Lower the Boom on Boomers
  • Every Job Should Have a Price
  • Should You Offer a Discount for Early Payments? Uh, Yeah!
  • Money Talks: Building Cash Flows Using New Digital Tools
  • Not Every Remodeling Project Increases a Home’s Value!
  • Smart Tech More Money Maker Than Money Saver
  • Remodelers, Take Notes: How to Bone Up on Markup
  • What Makes a Bid a Winning Bid?
  • Margin Call: Using Analytics to Boost Returns
  • Up in ARMs!
  • Risky Business: How to Plan for and Quantify Uncertainty
  • Net-Zero Houses Net Payoffs Faster Than People Figured
  • FICO’s New Model May Boost Scores
  • Financial Crisis Is Still Rocking the Construction Industry
  • Don’t Blame High Housing Prices for Baby-Free Cities
  • Art for Housing’s Sake
  • The Square Deal on Calculating Square Footage
  • Days Ahead May Be Taxing for Historic Preservationists
  • The High Promise of Owning at the Low End
  • Boomers and Their Mortgages
  • Interested in Making Money? Don’t Get into Construction
  • Welcome to the Neighborhood: Affordable Housing Can Increase Property Values
  • Where They Pay Up–and Where They Don’t
  • The Robots Are Coming! The Robots Are Coming!
  • Appraising Appraisals: Why Is the Process So Sluggish?
  • Neither a Digital Lender Nor a Borrower Be
  • Money, Man: Which Commercial Projects Get Funded?
  • Lenders Need to Be More Mobile
  • Appraisals: Will Tech Take Over from Humans?
  • Catching a Break: Tax Credit Saves Three Historic Buildings
  • For Efficiency’s Sake: Energy Costs Beat Codes
  • Housing Affordability Not Just an Urban Problem
  • Surprise, Surprise: Architecture and Money Go Hand in Hand
  • Container Homes: Should You Contain Yourself?
  • Figuring Out the Homeownership Gap
  • Getting Paid: How to Collect Construction AR
  • Bridges to Nowhere? Balancing Spending on Infrastructure
  • Ups and Downs of Housing Costs per Square Foot
  • Is Modular Building Finally Coming of Age?
  • Not Every Green Move Saves Greenbacks
  • Six Simple Ways to Save Money on a Big-Time Remodeling Project
  • New Homes Should Come with a Warranty
  • How Much Do Bathroom Remodelings Really Cost?
  • Are These Markets Once More About to Bubble Over?
  • Relighting the Lamp After the Darkness of Foreclosure
  • Inexpensive Upgrades That Really Add Up
  • Insure Thing: Coverage Must Come Up to Costs of Rebuilding
  • What Does $950 in Rent Get You?
  • The Metrics of the Foreclosure Industry
  • At Ease: Banks Continue to Lighten Up on Lending Standards
  • Millennials Do Want to Be Homeowners, but Disappointment Looms
  • Eight Tips to Writing a Winning Construction Bid
  • Trends in Commercial Lending
  • Interesting: Rates Will Rise; Yes, They Will
  • Are You Dense? Costs of the New Urbanization
  • Rules for Selling Remodeling Have Changed–Again
  • Mortgage Rates Finally on the Rise?
  • Salary Days: Money You Need to Buy a House in 27 Metro Markets
  • If You Can’t Afford a House, Here’s Why
  • Insiders’ Move to Close Down Fannie and Freddie
  • Want to Buy Apartment Buildings? Here’s How
  • Finally, Financing a Condo Is Easier
  • How Loan Modifications Are Like Weight Loss Scams
  • Home Buyers Are Tapped Out on Price
  • Will a Housing Policy Make You Look Presidential?
  • Looking for Bigger Jobs? Lend a Hand
  • Hey, Remodelers: You Can Raise Prices–Competitively
  • Asking for a Deposit: Be Clear, Be Direct
  • Watching Over Overhead
  • Follow the Money: States Where Home Improvers Borrow the Most Dough
  • Make Selecting Products a Win-Win, for You and Your Clients
  • Don’t Let Estimating Be a Slippery Slope!
  • Customer Just Won’t Pay? How to Be a Legal Eagle
  • Pay Day: How Remodelers Can Get More Money Faster and Quicker
  • How to Mark Up Your Markup
  • How Tidying Up A/R Keeps the Taxman at Bay
  • For Remodelers, Are ‘Good’ and ‘Cheap’ Ever a Pair?
  • Cash on Hand: Managing Your Moolah
  • How to Price Work When Work Is All You Have
  • Still True After All These Years: How to Make Money in Remodeling
  • The Rights Way: What Can You Do if Clients Won’t Pay?
  • Keep Tabs on Insurance, or Risk Losing Money
  • Hey, Remodelers: Profit Is Important, Believe It or Not!
  • Going Up? Contractors Need to Put Price Escalations on Paper
  • Should I Stay, or Should I Go?
  • Tightening Up Bids from Subs
  • Details, Details: How to Estimate Finish Carpentry
  • The 10 Terrible Things That Gobble Profits
  • Big Construction Companies Are Adept at Lowering Their Tax Bills
  • Forget These Two Myths, and Make Some Money!
  • The ABCs of Evaluating P&Ls
  • How Remodelers Can Charge Higher Prices
  • Straight Talk About Picking Products
  • Estimating’s Slippery Slopes Make It Hard to Get a Grip
  • How to Get in Front of Job Leads
  • How to Keep Insurance Up to Date While Keeping Costs Low
  • If Customers Really Want Something, Money Is No Object
  • Remodelers: Don’t Use Allowances–Ever
  • The Financial Fallout from One Bad Project
  • Positively False: Metrics to Be Wary Of
  • Yellow Pad Estimating: Green Lights, Red Lights
  • Shhhh! How to Avoid Talking About Markup
  • For Remodelers, It Can Be a Numbers Game
  • Scope It Out, and Be Sure to Charge for It!
  • Bidding: Don’t Beat Yourself
  • You Should Put a Price on Estimates
  • Growing Profit While Growing Up
  • Go with the Flow: How to Manage Cash in a Crisis
  • Is Proptech the Real Deal?
  • Unaffordable Housing: How Did We Get Here?
  • Discounting Is a Good Way to Go Broke
  • How to Ask Clients to Pony Up
  • Spin a Yarn, and Get the Dough
  • How Valuable Are Preservation Easements?
  • Show Them the Money: Financing Myths Hurt Millennial Home Buyers
  • Remodelers: Do the Markup Math!
  • For Contractors, Cash Really Is King
  • The Basics of Managing Allowances
  • Talking Costs Is Bad for Business
  • Can Corporate Dollars Help Fix the Crisis in Affordable Housing?
  • For Small Construction Companies, Handy Tips to Max Out Cash on Hand
  • For Small Contractors Looking to Sell, Pay Attention to These Five Common Mistakes
  • Dollars and Sense: Plugging Profit Leaks
  • Should Paying Off the Mortgage Be a Burning Desire? Not Necessarily
  • A House May Be a Home, but It’s Also a Bank
  • They’re Underwater; Why Are They Still Paying?
  • NAHB: Tax Reform Is a Good Deal for Housing, Builders, Remodelers
  • Where Property Taxes Are Highest and Lowest
  • Beats Money Under the Mattress: Seniors Have Substantial Home Equity
  • Money Talks–or Doesn’t: Underwriting Stays Tight
  • Keepin’ It Real: Consumers Still Prefer Investing in Houses
  • Remodelers: Should You Be a Franchise Player? Maybe, Maybe Not
  • For Small Contractors, How to Manage Cash on Hand
  • Is Historic Preservation the Best Route to Affordable Housing?
  • How Flipped-Out Buyers Helped Produce the Housing Crisis
  • What’s Upsetting First Timers? Down Payments Are Too High!
  • House So? What a Cool Mil Gets You in 25 Cities
    House So? What a Cool Mil Gets You in 25 Cities
  • Boomers: High Anxiety About Housing Affordability
  • What’s Behind the Persistent Scarcity of Housing for Sale?
  • Can You Bank on Tiny Homes?
    Can You Bank on Tiny Homes?
  • Biking and Walking Are Really Good for the Economy
  • Mortgage Lending Ain’t What It Used to Be; Sigh
  • Does Modular Construction Stand Up?
  • Addition by Subtraction: When Bad Remodels Need to Go
  • Are Starter Homes Now the Finish Line?
  • Great Eight: Factors That Affect Housing Values
  • Balancing Act: The Financial Ups and Downs of Renovating an Old Building
  • Green Neighborhoods Are Golden
  • Dollars and Sense: Good Words Can Add Up
  • McMansions Are Ugly, Sure, but They’re Often Bad Investments, Too
  • Pony Up: Tips on Paying for Solar
  • Grade-A Info: Owning in a Good School District Adds Up
  • Will Tenants Pay Higher Commercial Rents for Green Features?
  • Green Pays Off, Study Shows: More Tenants, Higher Rents
  • Mortgage Rates by State
  • Cuts Above: How Builders Can Trim Expenses
  • Underwater Homes Still Top-Shelf Problem
  • NAHB: Rules and Regs Account for Nearly Quarter of New Home’s Cost
  • As Home Prices Rise, Landlords’ Wallets Fatten Up
  • In Reality, Are House Flippers Only Playing a Part?
  • Commercial Properties: Deal Flow to Slow
  • What Price Is Right? Zillow Zestimates How to Do It
  • Wealth Effect in Housing Not What It Used to Be
  • Home Prices: Up, Up, and Away?
  • Dollars and Sense: Making Mortgages More Affordable in Rural U.S.
  • What’s Really Amazing Is Just How Little Money Home Builders Make
  • Home Equity Is Still on the Up and Up
  • Study: LEE-ND Leads Away from Affordable Housing
  • Why Are Appraisers Heading for the Exits?
  • Whither Home Prices? Shrewd Look at the Numbers Game
  • Sunset? Stocks of Solar Companies Plummet
  • Does Solar Leasing Hurt Home Sellers?
    Does Solar Leasing Hurt Home Sellers?
  • Is It Really Finally Getting Easier to Obtain a Mortgage?
  • Risk of Mortgage Fraud: Up, Up, Up
  • Could We Really Go Negative?
  • Bidding a Job? Avoid Formulaic Thinking
  • How to Increase Profit, Even When Customers Put on the Squeeze
  • Working Out the True Cost of Labor
  • Trying to Turn Leads into Sales? Try a Contact Center
  • Hey, Remodelers; Listen Up: Income Not Revenue, Income Not Revenue
  • Numbers Game: How to Estimate and Bid Successfully
  • Subs Are Everything Today! How to Slim Down Their Bids
  • You Shall Overcome (Price Resistance, That Is)!
  • Money Machine: How to Set Up a Collection System
  • And You Thought Design Is Always a Losing Proposition
  • The Real Meaning of Profit
  • Go Figure: Calculating the Real Cost of Labor
  • Business of Remodeling: Growth for Growth’s Sake
  • Is Templated Estimating a Thing? Yup
  • Dollars and Doughnuts: Most Well-Run Remodeling Companies Offer Financing
  • How to Handle Allowances Respectably
  • Dough What? What to Do if a Remodeling Client Won’t Pay
  • Getting Returns the Old Direct Mail Way
  • Get a Raise, Remodelers! How to Push Prices Up
  • Are Templates an Estimator’s Best Friend?
  • Guess What? Consistently Accurate Estimates Can Be the Real Deal
  • Remodelers: Make Something of Long Lead Times and High Product Prices!
  • Don’t Count Discounts; They’re Money Out the Door
  • Better Than a Lawyer? How About an Insurance Agent?
  • Power to Your Pricing: How to Charge More and Do Better
  • Go on a Diet, and Stop Nibbling at Profits
  • Bids from Subs: Eliminate the Wiggle Room
  • Plan, Man: How to Write a Pragmatic One for Your Business
  • Tips and Techniques for Transferring Ownership of Your Company
  • When Is ‘Paid in Full’ Not Really ‘Paid in Full’?
  • For Remodelers, Only the Accountable Numbers Matter
  • Warranty Calls Should Be Calls to Action
  • On Estimates, Transparency Not Always a Clear Option
  • Some Things Don’t Change: Managing Cash Flow Is One of Them
  • Credit Where Credit Is Due: Take This One, if You Can
  • Remodelers: How Can You Create a Business You Can Sell?
  • The Clarifying Power of Creating Useful Estimates
  • How to Drag Profit from a Remodeling Business
  • Smooth Operator: How to Prepare a Budget
  • Fix It, Remodelers: Price for Profit Not Loss
  • Training Days on the Job: Who Should Pay?
  • How to Get Money for Modular
  • Numbers Game: How to Estimate and Make Money at the Same Time
  • Putting Solar High on the List for Low-Income Households
  • Does Greening a City Hasten Gentrification?
  • Finding Affordable Housing Is a Big Probelm for Many; Should We Once More Make a Federal Case of It?
  • Even the Smallest Business Needs a Budget
  • Appraisers Are Under Siege–Again
  • What to Know When Buying a House–but Not the Land
  • For Investors, Smart, Resilient Buildings Will Be a Big Deal
  • Does It Pay for Cities to Go Green?
  • Old Thinking About Down Payments Hurts Young Buyers
  • Easy to Say–Stop Handing Out Free Estimates–but Hard to Do?
    Easy to Say–Stop Handing Out Free Estimates–but Hard to Do?
  • Push Toward Tech About Money, Honey
  • How to Prevent Brawls over Change Orders
  • The Basics of Bidding and Estimating
  • Compensating Salespeople: Stay Flexible, Get Creative
    Compensating Salespeople: Stay Flexible, Get Creative
  • Run-Around on Payments? How to Catch an Evasive Client
  • Not a Nostalgia Trip: 30 Years Ago, the Housing Market Was Healthier
  • No Surprise Here: New York City Is Most Expensive Place to Build
  • Why Do Apartments Make Money–Lots of Money–for Developers?
  • Affordable Housing Is a Healthy Outcome
  • Appraisals Still Rule, but Zillow and Others Are Getting Better at the Numbers Game
  • Need a Mortgage? Don’t Bank on It
  • For Millennials, Student Debt Means a Dream Deferred
  • The Fintech Revolution Gathers Steam
  • Unaffordable Housing and the Rise of Supercommuting
  • The Upper Middle Class Gets All the Breaks–and Won’t Admit It
  • More Seniors Want to Mortgage Their Future
  • Why Should Consumers Care About Housing Starts?
  • Price Pressure: What Factors Drive Appreciation?
  • Numbers Don’t Lie: In Praise of the Standard Appraisal
  • The Shrinking Value of McMansions
  • Details, Details: Wise Up About Homeowners’ Insurance
  • And the World’s Most Expensive Housing Market Is?
  • Where Are the Homeowners with Equity in Their Pockets?
  • States, Right: Home Buyer Programs in All 50
  • Soon, Getting a Mortgage Will Be an Online Experience
  • Surprise, Surprise: Curbed Growth Means Less Affordability
  • Home Sweet Mobile Home
  • Women Pay on Mortgages More Reliably but Have More Trouble Getting Them
  • Game of Drones: Construction Industry Could Save Billions
  • What Is Airbnb Doing to Rents in Big Markets?
  • Interior Design: Living Rich Without Digging Deep
  • Keeping PACE? Housing Groups Want FHA to Reconsider New Rules
  • Will Mortgage Process Go Digital? Not So Fast
  • Feds Say, Architects Deserve Overtime Pay
  • Many Boomerang Back, but Many Never Make It
  • Fifty Top Developers of Affordable Housing
  • HUD-ling: Former Secretaries Make Case for More Senior Housing
  • PV Panels: Will Prices Keep Plummeting?
  • Too True: Why More People Are Turning Into Long-Term Renters
  • Regs Price Out How Many Would-Be Home Buyers?
  • Should We Save Affordable Housing?
  • Five Troubling Things About Reverse Mortgages
  • Seer Buffet Doesn’t See a Housing Bubble
  • City or Burbs: Where’s the Best Return on a Rental Dollar?
  • Home Prices in Frisco Fizzle for the First Time in Four Years
  • Credit Where Credit’s Deserved: How to Approve Your Score
  • Is the Entire Construction Industry Bankrupt?
  • Construction Inflation Rolls Back
  • The Taxman Cometh: States with the Highest Residential Property Taxes
  • Affordable Markets Are Good for Business
  • Get Real: the Hard Costs of Owning a Home
  • Lucky Number: Construction Spending Up 13% YOY
  • Good to Hear: Foreclosures Still Dropping
  • What Is Net Metering, and Could It Kill Rooftop Solar?
  • Playing the Numbers Game
  • Glug, Glug–Who’s Most at Risk for Being Underwater?
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