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In This Issue:

Front Page
Supreme Court Rules Against Excessive Regulation
Harvard Predicts Continuing House Price Appreciation
Share Nation's Building News With Your Staff — It's Free
Home Builders Blitz Builds 400 Habitat Homes in One Week
Layouts for Living
Floor Plans: Luxury Townhomes, Affordable Rentals Rub Elbows
Coast to Coast
Less Housing for Residents of Average Pay, Report Says
Politics & Government
Pressure Grows to Rein in Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
U.S.-Canada Accord Would Put Lumber on Shaky Ground
House Bill Appropriates $35.3 Billion for HUD
$19.8 Billion Added for Hurricane Recovery
Housing Priorities Discussed With Howard Dean
Economics & Finance
Slowing Market Sends Builder Expectations Lower
Eye on the Economy: Housing Wealth Effect Will Weaken
Tips
Builder’s Tip: A Free Caulk-Finishing Tool That Works
Business Management
Business Plans, Exit Strategies Explored at Builder Symposium
For a Better Bottom Line: Read ‘BoB’
Remodelers
To Merge or Not to Merge: The Parable of the Carpenter
Design
Enter the BALA Competition, Registration Deadline Is July 15
Education
Want to Know More About Designations? Ask an Expert
Education Calendar
Green Building
Building Museum Exhibits Sustainable Modular House
Voluntary Guidelines Promote Water Conservation
California Green Builder Program Meets State Goals
Building Quality
Job Readiness and Cycle Time Key to Profits
Application Deadline Nears for EnergyValue Housing Awards
Regulation
Cluster Boxes Replacing Door-to-Door Mail Delivery
Construction Safety
Workers Can Avoid Back Injuries by Lifting Safely
Katrina Recovery
Public Housing Rebuilding Accelerated in New Orleans
Almost 1.2 Million Homes Damaged in 2005 Hurricanes
Labor
HBI Leads Efforts to Promote Careers in Home Building
Building Products
Software Services Include Coordinating Supplier Rebates
TV
NAHB-Produced Programs on HGTV & DIY This Week
Endowment
HELP to Target College Grads for Residential Construction
Association News
Avoid Credit Card Processing Rate Increases With Solveras
GM $500 Exclusive Offer for NAHB Members
BuilderBooks.com Offers Free Shipping on Books This Month
Find Key Employees Through NAHB Online Career Center
Calendar of Events
NAHB Career Center

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For a Better Bottom Line: Read ‘BoB’

Business Plans, Exit Strategies Explored at Builder Symposium

The Custom Builder Symposium in Las Vegas will feature strategic business advice from top business pros from around the country.

Business pros, including in-demand CPA Jim Weber, founding partner of Weber-O’Brien Ltd., will be providing strategic business advice at the 2006 Custom Builder Symposium in Las Vegas.

Weber, who has worked with hundreds of builders over several years on strategic business issues and challenges entrepreneurs to expect more from themselves, their advisers and employees, will discuss how “It Takes a Plan” to build a successful business and exit strategy. His presentation will touch on successful business basics — from foundation systems, policies and procedures to future strategies, including succession planning.

The Custom Builder Symposium will be held Oct. 27-29 at the Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas Resort.

Other educational sessions at the symposium will address such hot home builder topics such as:

  • Options for structuring your contracts
  • Outdoor “rooms”
  • Top technology trends
  • Marketing to multicultural customers


For more information, go online to the Custom Builder Symposium pages of the NAHB Web site. To register online, click here.

The Custom Builder Symposium will be held at the Lake Las Vegas Resort in Nevada on Oct. 27-29.



NAHB Has More Than 250 Resources to Help You Run Your Business More Profitably

Go to NAHB's Business Management Tools Web pages (available to members only) for instant access to more than 250 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 their Web site and give their members instant access to these resources. It will make your HBA's Web site the place to go for the information and guidance that members 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, visit www.nahb.org/BoB on the Members Only side of the NAHB Web site.



NAHB Technology Solutions Directory Now Online

NAHB’s Technology Solutions Directory — an easy-to-use directory that enables builders, remodelers, contractors and other industry professionals to find information on software and IT solutions and services for their businesses — is now online. The directory is sponsored by the Business Management & Information Technology Committee

Software and technology solutions providers interested in being listed can sign up for:

  • Enhanced Listing — Listing includes company name, URL, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, company/product description, company logo. Click here for more information.
     
  • Standard Listing — Listing includes company name and phone number. Click here for more information.


For more information, e-mail Wil Heslop at NAHB.

The Technology Solutions Directory is solely for educational and informational purposes.  Nothing in the directory should be construed as policy, an endorsement, warranty or guaranty by the National Association of Home Builders of the listed software, IT service or the software/IT vendor.  The National Association of Home Builders expressly disclaims any responsibility for any damages arising from the use, application or reliance on any information contained in this directory.


 

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