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Week of December 13, 2004

Front Page

* Lofty Housing Prices Putting Communities Off Limits to Workers, Symposium Hears
* BuilderBooks.com Job Site Safety Survey — Your Opinion Counts
* South Carolina Builders Defeat Impact Fee Referendum
* Housing Snapshot

President's Message

* Building a Foundation for Workforce Housing

Housing Forum

* Freddie Mac Initiatives Address Workforce Housing

Workforce Housing

* Jackson Pledges to Dismantle Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing
* Former HUD Secretaries Address Workforce Housing Issue
* Working Families Losing Ground in Housing Market
* Partnerships Provide Local Solutions to Workforce Housing Needs
* Housing Supply Needs to Catch Up With Demand to Reduce Price Pressures

Housing and Economics

* Incomes in California Increasingly Lagging Behind Escalating Home Prices

Small Builders and Remodelers

* Should You Charge for an Estimate?
* CGRs Make A Difference, Especially When It’s All in the Family

Seniors Housing

* Security Is a Primary Concern of Seniors

Regulation

* HUD Announces Program to Honor Communities for Reducing Regulatory Barriers to Housing

Green Building

* Texas Builders Raise the Standard for Residential Energy Efficiency

Environment

* Air Pollution Cut in Half, EPA Announces

Builders' Show

* Make Your IBS Plans by Dec. 17 — and Save

Commercial Builders

* YWCA Homeless Facility in Seattle Wins Top Commercial Building Award
* MasterFormat Retooled for Today’s Increasingly Complex Buildings

Women's Council

* Builders in Saginaw Visit Elementary School Classrooms

Building Systems

* New Courses Cover Cast-in-Place Concrete Foundations and ICFs

Business Management

* IRS Reduces Small Business Unemployment Tax Reporting Requirements
* ‘Find’-ing Your Way Through QuickBooks® Without Going Crazy
* Get Answers to IT Problems and Software Questions at New Builder Tech Forums at IBS

Building Quality

* Builders Report Profitable Results From Attention to Quality

Labor

* Scholarship Enables Job Corps Students to Start Housing Industry Careers

Building Products

* Fire Alarm System Uses a Single Pair of Wires

Builder's Engineer

* My Favorite Marketing Story

Building News Coast To Coast

Association News & Events

* Earn NAHB WorldPointssm Rewards When You Charge
* Awards Programs Deadlines
* Calendar of Events

NBN Back Issues

 

Get Answers to IT Problems and Software Questions at New Builder Tech Forums at IBS

NAHB’s Business Management & IT Committee will present three Builder Technology Forums at the 2005 International Builders’ Show. The forums will provide builders with information about selecting software to help them run their businesses more efficiently.

The forums will be moderated by panels of builders and software vendors who will tell attendees about pitfalls to avoid and the best way to use technology to increase profits. The forums are not sales presentations.

“This is a great opportunity to hear from everyone — people who produce and sell business software and builders who use it — about what works and what doesn’t,” says John Barrows, a custom builder in Wainscott, NY, who helped plan the forums.

The topics of the Builder Technology Forums are:

  • Financial Control (Job Costing & Purchasing) Software
  • Project Management Software
  • Sales Automation Software

For a schedule of Builder Technology Forums at the 2005 International Builders’ Show, visit www.nahb.org/techforum.


NAHB Has More Than 170 Resources to Help You Run Your Business More Profitably

Go to NAHB's Business Management Tools Web pages for instant access to more than 170 timesaving, moneymaking and cost-cutting business resources to help you run your business more profitably. Get guidance on accounting and financial management, business strategy, computers and information technology, customer service, human resources and more. 

Resources are added weekly, so bookmark www.nahb.org/biztools to go directly to these vital business management resources.

Local and state home builders associations can link directly to www.nahb.org/biztools from your Web site and give your members instant access to these resources. It will make your HBA's Web site the place to go for the information and guidance they need to succeed.

Subscribe to NAHB’s Business of Building e/Source

NAHB’s Business of Building e/Source is your monthly electronic guide to the hot issues and emerging trends in home building business management. You’ll find practical advice, tricks of the trade and sound business guidance — all delivered monthly, straight to your desktop, in a quick and easy-to-read format. Business of Building e/Source is available free to NAHB members and their employees. To subscribe, click here on the members only side of www.nahb.org.

The NAHB University of Housing Offers Courses on Business Management

The NAHB University of Housing offers a course on business management designed to help builders improve their business and profitability. For a list of current offerings, click here. Search keywords: “Introduction to Business Management.”


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