With interest rates causing some concerns with our potential buyers, the weather turning bad, a flat tire or two, we sometimes wonder if it is all worth it.
Dag Hammarskjold, statesman and leader of the UN once said:
“When the morning’s freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the [...]
Lee Iacocca, the automobile executive, said, “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”
Are you working on and writing down your personal and company goals for 2007? Now is the time to get this done. If you haven’t started yet, today is the day.
Please remember to give yourself time. [...]
Builder Online posted the following note in their newsletter on 11-21-06:
Orndorff Construction Inc. Files For Bankruptcy
Orndorff Construction Inc. has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. Middle District of North Carolina. According to court filings, the builder has $1.9 million in assets and $2.0 million in debt. The builder’s major creditor is the Bank [...]
The TLC channel is looking for a contractor in the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey tri-state area who has a project coming up where they have been hired to fix a disreputable contractors mistakes.
They’ve asked our help in finding one. The ideal situation would be a job that hasn’t yet started.
If your New York [...]
We have had two e-mails in the past week from homeowners asking about the “Industry Standard” for pricing, wondering if their contractor is overcharging them.
These contractors are giving itemized price breakdowns, or doing time and material jobs. They are charging a 10% management fee plus a whopping 20% to 30%, or just adding a 20% [...]
Michael is out of town for the third week in a row, and is spending every minute in the office working with coaching clients and catching up on phone/email messages. That’s why we haven’t posted much recently.
So I’ll post today, and make it short and sweet.
Last Monday I mailed our ballots for today’s election. Michael [...]
We are in a business whose backbone is good communication. I’m sure that would apply to most businesses, but it certainly is true in construction. To be a good communicator one has to like people and in turn be likeable themselves.
I was reading a paper from Abe WalkingBear Sanchez last week. He said that one [...]
