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Serious And Funny Construction Definitions Contractors Enjoy Reading

Contractor Bookkeeping

Bad Numbers - Lead to bad decisions / cash shrinks / business unstable / bankruptcy or failure. Bankruptcy - Result of saving money on bookkeeping and making decisions on garbage reports. Bad Bookkeeping - Saving money in the wrong place and making decisions on garbage reports. Process Development - Do it, Document it, and Delegate it.

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How High Profit Jobs Send Contractors Into Bankruptcy

Contractor Bookkeeping

In order for your construction company to survive and thrive in any economy you must pick a niche market and develop your Strategic Business Process Management System (BPM) with definite written goals of what you want to accomplish and how much money you want to earn from it.

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Modular Builder VBC On the Verge of $25-Million Buy for Katerra Assets

Pro Builder

Volumetric Building Companies (VBC) is in the final stages of a $25-million bankruptcy acquisition of Katerra’s former headquarters in Tracy, Calif. Regardless of what you think about their execution or their business model, they were definitely ambitious and they weren’t wrong in a lot of ways,” says Buckley. Tue, 08/03/2021 - 14:15.

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Solar Panel Tariff Fight Makes Strange Bedfellows

Green Building Law Update

Suniva, a solar panel manufacturer, now in bankruptcy, initially submitted a petition to the ITC on April 26, 2017. The opposition to the petition is an unlikely coterie that could be the very definition of “politics makes strange bedfellows.” SolarWorld, a German company with a manufacturing operation in the U.S.

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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things

Pro Builder

Shortly after, I read another piece on bankruptcies in home building, and soon I was thinking of the more than 250 builders I’ve worked with over more than three decades and wondering: Does this “ Anna Karenina Principle ” about families also apply to home building? That is, by definition, incredibly fragile. . So terribly fragile.

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Advise & Consult: Serious, expert legal insights for the construction industry

Construction Marketing Ideas

While the definition of a default depends on the terms of the SDI policy, it is solely based on a failure to fulfill the terms of a covered subcontract. My nearly two decades as a lawyer have taught me that surety bonds are really only protection against one risk: Subcontractor bankruptcy.

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Guest Blog – 5 Common Misconceptions About Surety Bonds

Construction Law Monitor

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