A coaching client recently told me he was being “underbid” on a remodeling job that will run $200K+. The other company, up till now, had only built new homes. My client’s quote was roughly $220,000 and the other quote was about $175,000, over 20% lower.
For those of you that have had this or similar problems [...]
New home builders and remodelers should be aware that more and more homeowners are trying to come back at contractors for items they think their state required guarantee should cover. A lot of these claims are fueled by consumer advocate websites where some “shade tree lawyer” has declared what they think you should cover.
While there [...]
We regularly hear about bad contractors, flakes who make the construction industry look bad. Today we want to report on a contractor who knows how to hold up under pressure and do the right thing.
Josh Neiderberger, one of our coaching clients in west Seattle, Washington called and told me about a scenario that happened to [...]
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I was talking with a young guy last week about writing contracts.
He was a small company, didn’t need any “big contract” with lots of pages. His customers wouldn’t read a long contract, yada, yada, and yad. I asked him when was the last time he wrote a contract over three pages in length. He said, [...]
I believe a majority of the conflicts I see as an expert witness, arbitrator, consultant and business coach are a direct result of a lack of respect for our profession. I served as expert witness last week and this attitude was obvious from both the owner and his attorney. I’m not sure about the judge, [...]
