It seems that the current trend in the industry is to grow one’s business by opening an additional office in another town, the logic being that if your existing office is doing $1 million, then opening a second office will bring in an additional $1 million.
Want to get paid for your restoration work? A significant cause for concern for restoration contractors is the prompt collection of accounts receivable from insurance carriers.
I recently spoke with an interpreter who had just completed an investigation. A local restoration company caught fire the night before and burned to the ground. The cause of the fire became clear after several interviews with the staff.
It was late as the plane banked toward the airport runway. I peered out the window to see a wide, winding black strip – which I later learned was the swollen Cumberland River – bisecting Nashville.
You should select your insurance agent based on their ability to understand your business and your insurance needs, and to offer you meaningful risk management advice.
As an employee of a restoration firm, I don’t have to tell you that owners are weird, because you figured that out a long time ago. What I would like to do is to try to explain some of the reasons why they are weird.
I remember attending a new drying class in Tennessee, what must be more than 12 years ago now, where Chuck Dewald declared, “Boys, all we have to do is get this industry to the level of plumbers: adjusters never question them!”
A continually evolving and expanding segment of the remediation industry, bio-recovery – better known as “crime scene cleanup” or “trauma cleaning” – has made great strides since it first came into being as an organized segment of the business almost two decades ago.
Recently, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi and Oklahoma all experienced powerful storms that drenched the areas in a matter of days, sometimes hours.
Scheduling. Job management. Estimating. Payroll. Billing. Taxes. Sales. Once upon a time the operations of a successful restoration firm could be managed through deft use of a sharp pencil and an accurate ledger.
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