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Tiny Home Living is Thriving, But With Drawbacks

Pro Builder

No debt or financial burdens, endless travel, and little limitations are the big reasons why many turn toward tiny home living, but the pandemic has put a pause on many of those benefits. Global Tiny Homes Market 2020 report found builders and sellers saw above average sales for tiny homes during the pandemic.

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Millennial Buyers Are Flooding the Housing Market

Pro Builder

Burdened by student debt and with career paths sidelined by the 2008 financial crisis and housing-market collapse, many millennials lacked the savings for a down payment in their 20s. Some real-estate brokers also theorized that millennials preferred to rent and spend money on travel and experiences rather than buy houses. “We

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Builders Need to Influence Their Teams to Get the COVID-19 Vaccination

Pro Builder

Across the country, construction industry employees leave their homes daily and travel . ?Builders I support their financial literacy efforts with 401k contribution education and personal debt management. Builders and construction executives are responsible for more than securing certificates of occupancy and laying foundations.

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Dreams, goals, transitions: How can we get to the future?

Construction Marketing Ideas

I had travelled overland through the continent once, two years previously). The business, for example, should have no debt other than current trade obligations (more than offset by current receivables). As an example, in 1978 at age 25, I quit my job on a small Alberta newspaper to return to Africa. (I

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Oh No! I’ve Graduated With a Construction Management Degree.

Constructonomics

Now they are boggled in debt and left with no income on which to live. You may want to take this opportunity to do some traveling or volunteering around the world for a couple of years and then come back to a much improved job market. So of course the simple solution to that is to get a job.

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The experts have spoken: We can and should be optimistic despite COVID-19

Lets Build

In the construction sector, we would in this scenario expect to develop even slightly more positively or slightly less shocking than the overall economy because of public stimulus measures and because it is hard-hit but less hit than some sectors like retail or travel and so on.

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Tax Reform Impact on Employers and Employees

Revit OpEd

An employer may still generally deduct 50% of the food and beverage expenses associated with operating its trade or business, such as amounts paid for an employee’s meals while traveling for business.