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Contract Structures: Fixed Price or Cost Plus?
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Part 4: Comparing Estimates: Creating a Bid Normalization Spreadsheet
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Comparing Estimates: The Basics That Get You 80% of the Way There
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Starting a Project? Here’s a Checklist of What You Need [and Why You Need It]
This checklist is mostly geared toward residential projects, but the concepts – and even many of the details – are often broadly applicable to all kinds…
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How To Afford a Renovation: Phasing a Project, Part 1
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