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Restoration: How to Manage Cash Flow While Waiting for an Insurance Check

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Even though the insurance company isn’t your customer, the property owner may be depending on that insurance check to pay for your work. Meanwhile, you’re incurring expenses that drain your bank account, like purchasing materials and paying employees. Finance job costs for longer payment cycles.

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Banks Consider Climate Change Risk for Home Loans

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Banks Consider Climate Change Risk for Home Loans. Banks are starting to calculate their risk exposure to climate catastrophes, and this process can be called “underwaterwriting” or “blue-lining,” depending on whether you’re looking at it from the point of view of the bank or consumer respectively. Housing Policy + Finance.

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HUD Jumpstarts PACE Financing for Homes

Green Building Law Update

Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs released new guidance, changing their previous positions, now widely allowing residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. a lien) that is superior to the FHA-insured mortgage for delinquent regularly scheduled PACE special assessment payments.

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4 Ways Materials Financing Can Help You Recession-Proof Your Business

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One of the most significant challenges during that time was the lack of financing for commercial construction companies. That’s why we’ve built Materials Financing to empower you to buy materials now and pay for them later with up to 120-day payment terms.

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What Is a Certificate of Insurance (COI) for Contractors — and When Do You Need One?

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To help your business remain viable, contractor’s insurance should be a crucial part of your financial strategy. Insurance also puts other parties’ minds at ease when they want to hire you as a specialty contractor. A certificate of insurance (COI) is a valid form used to prove that you carry the appropriate insurance policy.

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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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Mortgage Lender Predictions for 2022

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More than half, or 54%, expect one-stop shops, in which residential real-estate buying is centralized with related services included, to be the biggest potential industry disruptor in the next three years, and residential real estate finance companies are in the midst of working out how to position themselves in light of that shift.

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