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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
NARI recently participated in Mediaplanet’s Home Improvement campaign that linked likeminded industry leaders to raise awareness about the undertaking of home improvement projects. Through USA Today, targeted distribution and online media outlets, this will reach an estimated 5 million readers. Read the introduction by NARI’s Chair of the Board, Judy Mozen, CR, GCP.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
NARI is in the process of developing standards that define what a successful remodeling business may look like in terms of business, marketing, and operating systems. It is expected that a mature remodeling business could use these standards as a means of finding areas for improvement and increased profitability. These standards will also serve as a road map for startups and newer remodeling companies as they look for areas to help productivity or profitability. These standards may also serve as the foundation for NARI’s webinars and education programs of the future.
Please take some time to review the standards and provide comments. We are interested in your opinion and input. The NARI Standards Development Task Force thanks you.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
The 2017 NARI Achievement Awards are bestowed annually to recognize outstanding accomplishments by an individual, company, or NARI chapter that has worked to promote or enhance the professional remodeling industry. Held in conjunction with the 2017 CotY Awards program, there are 11 categories open for nominations including Leadership, Advocacy, Professionalism, Young Professionals, and more. NARI members can go here to learn how to submit a nomination.
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Professional Remodeler
Join more than 100 female executives and managers from top firms across residential construction, including NARI Chairwoman of the Board, Judy Mozen, CR, GCP, for Building Together: Women in Residential Construction, Sept. 28-30 in Scottsdale, AZ. NARI members receive a discounted registration fee by entering the code NARI.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
 As an Industry Partner, NARI members have access to expanded services and savings such as dedicated account support, jobsite delivery, customized billing, competitive product pricing, volume discounts and more. Plus, participating NARI members receive an annual 2 percent rebate on pre-tax purchases* through Home Depot’s Pro Xtra program. Saving is simple. Visit here to register any form of payment (credit/debit cards, Home Depot accounts, checking accounts, etc.) to your company’s Pro Xtra account using the agreement code NARI.
For assistance enrolling call 866-333-3551 or watch this short video.
*After meeting a $10,000 annual purchase minimum, the rebate is paid from the first dollar.
MarketWatch
For John Funderburk, a 46-year-old financial adviser in Frederick, Maryland, a sandwich isn’t just for lunch; it’s a way of life. Since his 67-year-old mother developed respiratory issues, she’s lived with him and his wife and 2-year-old daughter, for the past two years in their single-family home outside Washington, D.C. — a living arrangement that puts Funderburk in what housing analysts call “the sandwich generation.”
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Pacific Union
Gary Keller, co-founder of Keller Williams, noted recently that he is concerned that the U.S. housing market may be shifting by pointing to the following market indicators: “Days on the market are up, the supply of move-up and higher end housing is now growing, home prices are going down in some markets, unit sales are slowing and construction is flat.”
However, Keller’s comments need nuance. It is dangerous to make broad statements about the national housing market.
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Contractor Connection is the nation’s largest managed repair and remodeling network, comprising 5,000 growth-minded contractors serving large membership associations who partner with us to provide their members access to our network. Our contractors are held accountable not only through our stringent credentialing process but also through ongoing performance management.
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Remodeling
Tim Faller writes: In previous columns I defined the first characteristic of a successful team, trust, and the second characteristic, a dynamic group process. The third aspect of a successful team, as described in the book "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" is having common goals. Most managers assume that once they define the goals, all the employees are instantly on board. However, employees’ actions often reveal confusion, or even worse, quiet rebellion. How do you get everyone engaged to meet common goals?
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Housing Wire
Recently, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Administration announced that the FHA will soon begin insuring mortgages that also carry liens created by energy retrofit programs, as long as the energy lien remains subordinate to the mortgage.
But the housing industry’s biggest trade groups are concerned with the details of the FHA’s new rules surrounding loans created by the Property Assessed Clean Energy program, also called PACE loans.
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Pro Remodeler
If your home improvement business is generating $5 million to $8 million or more in annual revenue, you may be asking yourself what could go wrong if you turn day-to-day management over to a general manager — a title of position defined by Wikipedia as someone who “oversees most or all of the firm's marketing and sales functions as well as the day-to-day operations of the business” and who “has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company’s income statement, known as profit and loss responsibility."
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U.S. Department of Energy
A team of scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Florida has developed a novel method that could yield lower-cost, higher-efficiency systems for water heating in residential buildings.
The theory behind the newly termed “semi-open” natural gas-fired design, explained in an ORNL-led paper published in Renewable Energy: An International Journal, reduces the cost and complexity of traditional closed gas-fired systems by streamlining, and even eliminating, certain components.
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The Journal of Light Construction
“It depends.” These two little words always signal the absence of a coherent company policy. Other key indicators of a company’s need for policy are words such as if, sometimes and usually. Here’s an example based on a recent conversations with a bookkeeper.
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