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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
NARI and the National Remodeling Foundation are working together to solicit donation to support Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts in the Texas Gulf Coast. All donations will go to Rebuilding Together who has an extensive network to support those in need. Make a donation and support recovery in the Texas Gulf Coast. Learn more.
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To help NARI leaders fully understand the needs of its members we are starting a new program of quick surveys. These surveys will be quick and easy to answer. We will report the results the following week, along with a follow up question. We encourage your participation and comments. If you have a subject you’d like us to explore please send your comments to the Strategic Planning and Research Committee at SPR@nari.org.
How are you doing is invariably the first question a remodeler is asked in a social setting. Kind of a nosy question isn't it? But we all get asked. Do you give an honest answer? We're busy, we have plenty of work, but do you really ever answer with how you are doing?
All the economic forecasts are predicting continued growth in remodeling activity and that's great news for us, but just being busy does not guarantee business success.
• How you doing financially, are the projects you are doing generating the kind of profit you expect?
• Are you happy; are you able to take time off to spend with your family?
• How else would you measure success?
Here's a gut check question, how are you doing? Only you will know how you answer our 2 question survey, quick and easy. We promise! Your responses will be privileged info, responses are fully anonymous.
This is your chance to unburden yourself with the truth. The resulting information will give you an honest assessment about how you really stack up against your peers. Take our survey now!
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
Our Social Media Engagement Campaign will soon come to an end! Please continue to spread the word and like/follow the following pages if you have not yet done so:
NARI HQ Facebook Page
NARI HQ Twitter
NARI HQ Pinterest
NARI HQ Instagram
And please don’t forget to support your local Chapter by liking your Chapter’s Facebook page as well!
Weekly Tip: Make Your Posts Visually Appealing With the Use of Images and Videos. Research has shown that social media posts that have a captivating image increase an audience member’s willingness to click by 80 percent. Along with that, it’s 40 times more likely to be shared.
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
 The 2018 CotY National Awards program is open for entries for projects completed between December 1, 2015 and November 30, 2017. All NARI remodelers are invited to participate in this annual competition. The final deadline to submit an entry is December 5, 2017. Click here for details.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
The 2018 NARI Achievement Awards recognize outstanding achievements by an individual, company, or NARI chapter that has worked to promote or enhance professional remodeling. These honors are bestowed annually across 11 categories celebrating leadership, professionalism, and dedication to the remodeling industry. The deadline to submit a nomination is December 18, 2017. Click here for all the details.
Kitchen & Bath Industry Show
The Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) is North America’s premier annual event dedicated to the kitchen and bath industry, and NARI HQ will be exhibiting in Booth S5068. Register today with discount code ORLANDO to receive your FREE exhibit hall pass!
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
Design & Construction Week® (DCW) features the co-location of the NKBA's Kitchen & Bath Industry Show® (KBIS) and the NAHB International Builders' Show® (IBS). In 2018, this synchronization of tradeshows and markets occurs in Orlando, Florida, again January 9-11. The fifth annual DCW will bring together 80,000+ design and construction professionals in the largest annual gathering of the residential design and construction industry. NARI members receive special discounts to explore the exhibit floors of both shows—a combined total of 2,100+ exhibits! Register for your DCW expo pass today.
Rochelle Robinson
 Getting an early start to your taxes can help you minimize your tax burden, increase deductions, and avoid the end of the year scramble. Read the blog article here.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
NARI’s partnership with The Home Depot can help your members reduce expenses, and keep job costs competitive. Your members can take advantage of the following benefits:
- Earn up to 2 percent cash back on every purchase semi-annually*
- Next-day delivery
- Procurement options with real-time pricing & availability
- Dedicated account support and concierge service
- Consolidated purchase tracking & reporting
This year, The Home Depot is helping NARI members earn even more. We’re serving your members at the local level by joining all NARI chapters. Learn more.
For assistance enrolling call 866-333-3551 or watch this short video.
*After meeting a $12,500 semi-annual purchase minimum, the rebate is paid from the first dollar.
Buildertrend
 Buildertrend is the most widely-used construction management system for home builders, remodelers, specialty contractors and general contractors. It combines project scheduling, project management, financial management, customer management and service management in a single suite. As a cloud-based platform, this system can be accessed online with a computer or mobile device. Check out their blog post on quality team meetings here!
NARI
Long live diligence. It’s not found everywhere or in everyone, but in those who pay attention to detail and take pride in their finished work. And it’s found in Ram® trucks. Now during Ram® Fall Commercial Truck Season, NARI Members receive an extra cash allowance on top of most national and local incentives. Plus, we’re extending this offer to NARI Employees and same household Family Members. Diligence can be passed on, and now so can these savings. See your local dealer or WWW.NARI.org/FCA for more information.
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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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Townsquare Interactive
Small business owners can have a variety of different goals for their businesses. One remodeling expert might have dreams of opening franchises across the state or country, while another is focused on providing highly specialized remodeling services to only local towns and cities. No matter your goals for your remodeling business, it’s important that you start at square one to build a solid marketing foundation, and that means keeping your SEO campaign local.
Why local? The main reason is that Google wants to provide relevant search results, which means showing the results that are closest to the consumer’s current location. Want to learn more about the benefits of creating a strong local SEO campaign? READ ON.
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
Starts: January 8, 2018
The Universal Design Certified Professional (UDCP) Program addresses the concepts of Universal Design: client’s needs assessment, design applications, construction techniques, electrical systems and plumbing systems.
WHERE: Room S310C Orange County Convention Center
WHEN: Monday, January 8, 2018 from 8:00 AM to 5:00PM
LENGTH: This is an 8 Hour class.
The exam associated with this class will be held on January 9, 2018, 8:00 to 12:00, room S310C
The first 4 people to enroll and attend the class and certification exam will receive a VTFI 3 day pass.
Click here for more information and to enroll
Starts: January 22, 2018
Are you a full service remodeler?
Do you support the remodeling industry as a trade contractor or supplier?
Are you looking for a way to set yourself apart from the competition?
If so, then NARI’s CR, CRS, or CRA designation may be for you.
The CR Study Group will fine tune your competencies in all areas essential to success as residential remodeling professional. The CR Study Group is a facilitated program that will build your knowledge in all areas of residential remodeling and serves as preparation for the Certified Remodeler (CR) exam. It also supports the preparation for the Certified Remodeler Specialist (CRS) and Certified Remodeler Associate (CRA).
WHERE: Virtual, teleconference
WHEN: Starts Monday, August 28, 5-7 pm Central
LENGTH: Twelve consecutive weeks every Monday for two hours
This Study Group will prepare you for the May 2018 CR, CRS, or CRA exam.
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
Universal Design for Independent Living
Brought to you by Sherwin-Williams
October 26, 2017 Noon CT
As millions of Baby Boomers turn 65 and older, designers, remodelers, and new home builders will increasingly be called upon to renovate and design homes that foster independent living and provide clients the ability to age in the comfort of their own home. This course will explore tips for creating a home that works for all generations, with particular emphasis on the role of color, sheen and lighting on aging eyes. Finally, we will discuss tips for incorporating independent living strategies into your designs, as well as in to conversations with your clients. Click here to register
Best Practices for Finding and Retaining the Best Candidates
November 2, 2017 Noon CT:
Presented by Angie’s List
You could do more projects if you had the workforce to do the work. That seems to be a very common problem for remodelers today. This webinar will discuss best practices:
• To use for searching and finding qualified Candidates
• To identifying the traits that signal a winning employee
• For developing creative retention strategies to keep your best workers. Click here to register
Inside Out: Bringing Indoor-Outdoor Living Spaces to Your Clients Remodel
Presented by: Brenda Brunk, Product Planner, Marvin Windows and Doors
November 16, 2017 Noon CT:
As the indoor-outdoor living trend continues to grow, so does the demand from your clients. From living areas to backyard kitchens, indoor-outdoor trends can give a home an inside-out twist. Creating seamless transitions between these spaces is an important consideration when remodeling a home -- one design change can blur the lines between indoors and outdoors and can have a great impact on the way your clients experience everyday life.
Join us for this webinar to learn about things to consider and the solutions available when designing a new indoor-outdoor space into a remodel.
Click here to register
Manage your jobs on the GO
November 28, 2017 Noon CT:
Brought to you by BuilderTrend
All remodeling companies are looking to utilize their mobile devices to better manage their jobs when in the field. This webinar will take a look at the current devices, software and apps that are available to construction companies today. More specifically, we will discuss how correctly utilizing these available apps can save a construction company up to 9 hours per week and exceed the expectations of the information-hungry buyer of 2017.
Click here to register
*These webinars are free but require registration.
Pro Trade Craft
One of the leakiest parts of a house is where the floor meets the walls and foundation. On the Model Remodel project, Ben Bogie added air sealing to each step of the framing sequence, beginning with a sill seal gasket.
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remodeling
Business is good, but the balance sheet is not. Over time, the business’s equity has gone from positive to negative — it owes money to lots of people.
How did it happen? Could be a big hit on a job. Might be poor estimating. Possibly several bad clients. Overhead has not been controlled. And on and on go the reasons.
Once you finally realize how bad the situation is, what can you do? Create a plan, often called a bunker plan, to survive and recover. It’s a plan to get rid of the debt and have positive equity once again.
Here’s what goes into the bunker plan:
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Professional Remodeler
This is one way for re-modelers to streamline operations and align expectations — just make sure you provide enough detail
My business partner and I started SoBo Homes in 2003. Today our design-build company has 10 employees and we do 12 to 16 projects per year with a little over $3 million in revenue. We’re a boutique company that provides an intimate experience for our customers.
In 2015 we decided to join Re-modelers Advantage. Our impetus was a retired builder we knew and respected who told us that the single best thing he ever did for his company was to join that group. We were like, “OK then.”
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Professional Remodeler
Ten years after a historic building frenzy, remodelers are seeing more and more defective new homes.
The housing boom of the early 2000s was a legendary party followed by a massive, national hangover. And while the remodeling market is in full recovery-mode today, there are still plenty of headaches left over from that historic fiesta.
One of the biggest is something you don’t see reported on very often. Currently, hundreds of thousands of people across the country are discovering that their brand new homes were poorly built and now need costly repairs. In most cases, the repairs can be made, but issues remain. Just ask Franco Fournier, in Encinitas, Calif.
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ProSales
Each of us has implicit and explicit biases, both of which impact how we live, work and interact with our peers. With regard to work, these biases typically amount to both men and women tending to associate men with the career world and women with home and family life, says Liz Redford, a doctoral candidate in social psychology at the University of Florida and a consultant with Project Implicit.
“Our implicit biases may be less intended and less conscious than our explicit ones,” Redford adds. “Explicitly, we believe women should be as associated with career as they are with family, but implicitly, we might not think that.”
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Qualified Remodeler
Remodelers often misunderstand the terms margin and markup when creating their budget and, as a result, may discover at the end of the year that they have been losing money. Markup describes the percentage they apply to the cost of a job to cover overhead and profit, whereas margin represents the percentage they earn on the selling price of a project. Instead of calculating their own margin and markup, most contractors just adopt numbers from industry specialists.
“They tell you what margins people are using, but they don’t teach you how to figure out what margin you need to use,” says Shawn McCadden, remodeling industry consultant and owner of Remodel My Business. “Part of the challenge is it depends on what you put above the line (job costs) and below the line (overhead) in determining what your markup and margin [should] be.”
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JD Supra
EPA Administrator E. Scott Pruitt begins his Oct.16, 2017, directive on transparency and public participation in consent decrees and settlement agreements by stating, “EPA has previously sought to resolve lawsuits filed against it through consent decrees and settlements that appeared to be the result of collusion with outside groups.” Administrator Pruitt declares “EPA will not resolve litigation through backroom deals with any type of special interest group.” Directive Promoting Transparency and Public Participation in Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements, Oct. 16, 2017.
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