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Making product selections can be a frustrating part of the reduction deadlines. Remodelers often use forms to stay up to date on modeling process — for both clients and contractors. It products. About 73% of the remodelers who answered this survey takes a lot of coordination to lead clients through...
Though most remodelers do not own construction-related franchises, 33% of our respondents have considered purchasing one. Of the owners that purchased a franchise, 70% still own their original company and 67% manage both companies themselves. Those who invested in a franchise cite the desire to...
Most of our ReaderPanel respondents agree that today's remodeling customers are more savvy and knowledgeable —about costs, products, and what they want done — than customers have been in the past.
Barely 29% of remodelers surveyed prepare a marketing plan and budget each year, and 80% spend 3% or less of annual revenues on marketing.
Not all of our Reader Panel respondents do jobs where the homeowners supply at least some of the materials (known as buy-it-yourself, or BIY). But most — 84% — do. In fact, fewer than 10% say they have never done any BIY work at all.
More than half of respondents have delegated production, bookkeeping, and payroll duties to employees. Some 32% have handed design over to someone else, and a quarter have passed along estimating and sales responsibilities.
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Getting the word out about what's acceptable and what's not is different for every company.
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Most use fixed-price contracts, and to keep good subs happy, they pay in full, either immediately or within one week of job completion.We ask trade contractors to bid competitively on our projects and we use the low bidder 4%
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Since 1990, new immigrants have entered the American work force in unprecedented numbers and altered its makeup as never before.