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Why Banks Won't Lend Money To Your Construction Business

Contractor Bookkeeping

Think of all the times: You loaned money to a friend or relative Provided labor and materials for somebody's home or business without a deposit check Did change order work that you never got paid for doing and never will Gave a subcontractor/employee an advance on their paycheck, and you never got paid back Multiply that by 100,000, and you will understand (..)

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How to Avoid Running Out of Cash on a Construction Project

Levelset

Contractors can take on more work than their cash flow will let them perform, leaving them scrambling for cash to pay their bills or their employees. Ensuring consistent cash flow throughout a project is the key to scaling your contracting business. Why contractors run out of cash. But what about cash flow?

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

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. change orders.

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Top 3 Tips for Improving Cash Flow as a Construction Contractor

ProcurementExpress.com

Construction companies face more cash flow challenges than just about any other industry. This allows you to maximize cash flow without having to pay for additional software (well, unless you’re mailing out paper invoices and waiting for checks to come in). Process Change Orders Quickly. Automate P2P.

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Top 3 Tips for Improving Cash Flow as a Construction Contractor

ProcurementExpress.com

Construction companies face more cash flow challenges than just about any other industry. This allows you to maximize cash flow without having to pay for additional software (well, unless you’re mailing out paper invoices and waiting for checks to come in). Process Change Orders Quickly. Automate P2P.

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Contractor Tactics On How To Avoid Payment Problems

Contractor Bookkeeping

The larger your construction business grows, the more likely you could end up operating as a bank without the hundreds of ways to generate revenues from fee income and interest calculation that banks use. Likewise, larger firms can leverage economies of scale.

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You Have HUD-1 Statements And Your Bank Wants Financial Statements

Contractor Bookkeeping

You are a spec home builder in need of a construction draw and your bank or lender wants to see your latest financial reports and this time they want all of the current houses you are working on to be reflected in QuickBooks correctly as Work-In-Process (W.I.P.) We have a FREE change order form you can download here.

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