The Remodeler’s Business:
Protecting Your Company While Maximizing Profit
Remodeling Is Its Own Business. Start Running It Like One.
Remodeling isn't a smaller version of new construction, it's a completely different animal. You're working in someone's home, managing their emotions as much as their project, navigating contracts that need to hold up when things get complicated, and pricing work where the unknowns can eat your margin alive. Most remodelers learned the trade on the tools. This session is about learning the business. Don cuts through the noise to give remodelers the practical frameworks they need to protect their company, price for real profit, and know exactly when a job or a client isn't worth taking.
Who Is This For?
This presentation is built for remodeling contractors and small residential builders who are great at the work but ready to get serious about the business side. If you've ever finished a job and wondered where the money went, dealt with a homeowner who moved the goalposts mid-project, or signed a contract that didn't protect you when things went sideways, this session was built for you.
All sessions are built to run 2 hours — because real change takes more than a quick talk. But Don knows how job sites work: schedules shift, time is money. Every presentation can be condensed to 60 minutes and still hit hard.
How to set and manage homeowner expectations from day one, so you're not spending the back half of every job putting out fires
The contracts and documentation practices that protect remodelers when clients push back, change their minds, or dispute the bill
How to price for actual profit and build a change order process that doesn't feel like a fight every time
What you need to know about double payment exposure and lien rights before they become a problem on your next job
How to recognize the jobs and clients that aren't worth taking — and develop the confidence to walk away before they cost you
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