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Storage Units: Are They Worth Buying Or Building?

Construction Marketing

To Help Regular Travelers. Depending on their line of work, some people travel frequently. To store their goods, supplies, materials, and inventory relevant to their businesses, many business owners look for storage units. Getting a storage unit will help one reduce the stress of relocating to a new house.

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Online Homebuying Makes Way for Sight Unseen Bids

Pro Builder

Despite record low housing inventory, some first-time buyers remain insistent on becoming homeowners, even if it means never seeing the home in person before buying, reports the New York Times. Fri, 02/19/2021 - 09:47. First-time buyers made up 36% of total buyers in April 2020, a 5% increase from the two prior years.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

Pro Builder

Instead, Clark Ivory reassumed his CEO duties and set a bold, uncharted course to diversify the company’s successful semi-custom, move-up home legacy to include affordable housing for an increasing underserved segment of buyers. Design Within Reach—Exploring Attainable Housing Options. See past Builder of the Year winners. and Outward.

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Putting 9 senior living market trends into perspective

BD+C

Multifamily Housing Senior Living Design Apartments In a previous article , I laid out seven lessons that I’ve learned from more than 40 years of planning and designing senior living environments in the U.S. The hotelier applied the business traveler model to a senior living prototype and began building them in communities across the U.S.,

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Unlock New Potential—Can Multifamily Pop-Up Hotel Concepts Transform Lease-Ups?

BD+C

MFPRO+ Blog Multifamily Housing The multifamily industry is great; it's like being among friends and extended family. There is the flexibility benefit: Given the short-term nature of a "hotel guest," the pop-up unit inventory can be right-sized quickly, catering first to traveler demand and later to unit availability.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

Pro Builder

Off the Clock • Working out • Traveling • Crushing it as a single mom with a full-time career. Grew from small carpentry jobs to room remodels, whole-house remodeling, entry-level townhome construction, and then, ultimately, upscale custom homes. Off the Clock • Spending time with family • Golf • Cooking • Travel .

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: A New Year in.

Rory Woolsey

For all those that think traveling is glamorous … not! There was one great result to all this travel in that I made about 8,000 new friends across the country that also have an interest in construction estimating (sick, sick individuals). I remember there was actually a Hughes Airlines that was yellow like a banana.