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Why Contractors Ask for Money Up Front

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PRESENTED BY MASTER BUILDER CONSTRUCTION TX THE CONTRACTOR JOURNAL REAL JOBS • REAL PROBLEMS • REAL CONSTRUCTION THE BUSINESS OF BUILDING / MONEY & CONTRACTS Why Contractors Ask for Money Up Front. The homeowner sees a payment. The contractor sees materials, labor, subcontractors, equipment, suppliers, fuel, scheduling—and a whole line of people who expect to get paid. FROM THE FIELD  •  CONCRETE  •  LABOR  •  THE MONEY BEHIND THE BUILD There is something homeowners and contractors have argued about forever: Why does the contractor need money before the job is finished? And I understand why somebody asks. You're handing another person thousands of dollars. You want to know where the money is going. You want to know the work is actually going to happen. You don't want somebody taking your money and disappearin...
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The Contracting Lie: Everything Is Going to Be Okay

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PRESENTED BY MASTER BUILDER CONSTRUCTION TX THE CONTRACTOR JOURNAL REAL JOBS • REAL PROBLEMS • REAL CONSTRUCTION THE BUSINESS OF BUILDING / CONTRACTOR LESSONS The Contracting Lie: Everything Is Going to Be Okay. What losing control of a growing construction company taught me about cash flow, systems, responsibility—and telling people the truth before the truth tells itself. FROM THE FIELD  •  RESTORATION  •  CONSTRUCTION  •  LESSONS LEARNED There was a point in my life when I had more construction work than I knew what the fuck to do with. And if you'd looked at the company from the outside, you probably would have thought I had made it. I had trained some sales guys about a week before a tornado came through. Then they went out and sold their asses off. In what felt like no time, I had around a million dollars in work sold....
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Location: Houston, TX, USA
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The Finished Floor Starts Before the First Board Goes Down

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PRESENTED BY MASTER BUILDER CONSTRUCTION TX THE CONTRACTOR JOURNAL REAL JOBS • REAL PROBLEMS • REAL CONSTRUCTION BEHIND THE FINISH / FLOORING The Finished Floor Starts Before the First Board Goes Down. The finished flooring gets all the attention. But demolition, substrate condition, preparation and layout can determine the quality of the installation long before the room looks finished. REAL PROJECT  •  FLOORING  •  DEMOLITION  •  PREPARATION  •  INSTALLATION Everybody sees the finished floor. That's the part people photograph. That's the part the homeowner walks on. And that's usually the part people use to decide whether a flooring job looks good. But by the time the finished floor is installed, a lot of the decisions that affect the job have already been made. The old flooring has been removed. ...
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Location: The Woodlands, TX, USA
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