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Your Garage Remodel: How to Make It a (Re)Model of Efficiency

Contractor Connection

Remodeling your garage can increase your home’s living space—and value. It’s a good idea to look at pictures of garage remodels online for inspiration. Many of the decisions that go into a home remodel or addition are not just design choices; they are structural engineering problems to solve. No need to get multiple bids.

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Top ten software for estimating and bidding

Construction Cost Estimating

Sage facilitates you to produce bids rapidly, precisely and positively with takeoff and cost databases. Sage Estimating also facilitates forecasting the labor, raw material and other overhead costs so that the contractors can arrange & deliver correct bids. Besides, customized reports can also be generated.

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Commercial Construction Trends and Predictions for 2016

HardHatChat

We’re already seeing a boom in senior housing construction as new communities pop up, particularly in suburban areas, but another avenue where we anticipate a high level of construction activity next year is existing communities that must refresh and remodel to stay competitive with new players.

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Construction Lead Services-Comparison of Dodge and ConstructConnect

Construction Marketing

Now, though, the companies have fully integrated the lead generation software with other products supply chain participants would want during the preconstruction process, such as estimating and takeoff software, customer relationship management software, and bid management software. The database is highly searchable and deep with information.

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How This Arizona Luxury Home Builder Is Making a Move to Diversify

Pro Builder

That’s what led us to start a custom home remodeling division and to build single-family rentals. . It was increasingly difficult to find land that wasn’t being bid on by multiple big, national builders. These [parcels] were in existing residential communities and we decided we’d create a business model that has an exit strategy.

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“Why are bids so different?” and why your proposal document is most important when it least seems so.

Construction Marketing Ideas

This posting from Paul Lesieur in the Remdodelcrazy.com blog is worth repeating:’ Why are the bids so different? We like the contractor with the highest bid best because he had detailed all the fixtures we wanted and his estimate was very detailed in general. Why are the bids so different?

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How High Profit Jobs Send Contractors Into Bankruptcy

Contractor Bookkeeping

The problem is high profit jobs have a way of turning into low or no profit jobs and in some cases they can bankrupt your construction company because you bid the project using whatever model you are accustomed to using and in the end you wind up with cash flow problems. Home Builder Doing A Residential Remodel.