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Remodeling Courses Focus on Business Practices, Lead Paint
NAHB Remodelers is sponsoring 16 educational sessions at the 2009 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas that will provide tips on how to improve business practices, estimating and scheduling; understanding the Environmental Protection Agency’s new lead paint rule; green remodeling; an assessment of the remodeling market, and more.
Sessions include:
Tuesday, Jan. 20
- Partnering for Successful Aging-In-Place Remodeling: AARP, NAHB and AOTA
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 262 and 264
Presenters: Carla A Chase EdD, ORT, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Michael O'Neil, AARP, Washington, D.C.
Representatives from AARP, NAHB and AOTA (The American Occupational Therapy Association) will discuss the increasing desire and demand for accessible living to age in place and the resources each organization has to meet this need. The unique partnering arrangement between builders, remodelers and occupational therapists will be explored as it relates to outcomes for the aging-in-place client.
- The Builders and Remodelers Guide to Mastering QuickBooks
10:15-11:45 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 115-117
Presenter: Steve Maltzman, Redlands, Calif.
In this session, attendees will learn how to use the financial information about their business provided through QuickBooks to manage their company.
- Making Finance Work
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 262 and 264
Presenter: Kristin Mason, Carmel Financial, Carmel, Ind.
This session will show remodelers the benefits of offering multiple payment options including cash, credit card and financing and will examine how to finance customers of every credit quality. In addition, attendees will learn about how remodelers can help clients find secondary financing for projects and how best to profit from this financing.
Wednesday, Jan. 21
- Draw Your Way to an Estimate: Getting Started with CAD-Assisted Estimating and BIM
8:00 9:30 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 252 and 254
Presenter: Joe Stoddard, Mountain Consulting Group, LLC, Lawrenceville, Pa.
This session will demonstrate how highly-detailed working drawings, computer-aided design (CAD) and 3-D modeling can be leveraged to produce an error-free cost estimate and generate additional building information that can help create more accurate job estimates.
- Schedule Is Spelled P-R-O-F-I-T
10:15-11:45 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, South 232
Presenter: Mike Weiss, CGR, CAPS, GMB, WeissRCMI, Carmel, Ind.
The construction schedule is one of the most valuable tools in construction. This session will explain how schedules can be used to improve bottom lines and help remodelers run jobs more effectively and efficiently.
- Understanding EPA’s New Lead Paint Rule
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 115-117
Presenters: Robert Hanbury, CGR, House of Hanbury, Newington, Conn.
Michael Wilson, EPA, Washington, D.C.
Matthew Watkins, NAHB, Washington, D.C.
This session will examine the EPA's Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting rule governing professional remodelers doing work in homes where there is lead-based paint, how the rule affects remodelers and how they can prepare for its implementation. The rule will take effect in April 2010.
- The 10 Best Practices of the NAHB Remodeler of the Year
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, South 231
Presenters: Patrick O’Toole, Qualified Remodeler Magazine, Fort Atkinson, Wis.
Jeff Hunt, CGR, CAPS, CGP, Heritage Construction, Houston
This session will highlight the 10 best practices in estimating, pricing, design, construction and business practices that helped the 2008 NAHB Remodeler of the Year, Jeff Hunt, become a success in business.
Thursday, Jan. 22
- SHOW ME THE MONEY: Learn How to Read Financials and Avoid Mystery Profit Loss!
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 255 and 257
Presenter: Anthony Burruano, Burruano Group, Naples, Fla.
This presentation will explain how to read financial reports and identify what is critical to maximizing profits and cash flow. The session will show how to use a balance sheet, income statement, working capital schedule and schedule of cost to complete.
- Remodeling Market
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, South 232
Presenters: Gopal Ahluwalia, NAHB, Washington, D.C.
William Apgar, Joint Center for Housing, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Kermit Baker, Joint Center for Housing, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Lonny Rutherford, CGR, CAPS, CGP, Legacy Construction, Farmington, N.M.
This session will forecast the cost and volume of residential remodeling activity for 2009.
- Green Remodeling: Meeting Your Market Where They Live
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 109-110
Presenter: David Johnston, What’s Working, Berkeley, Calif.
This presentation, based on Johnston’s book "Green Remodeling: Changing the World One Room at a Time," will examine how to remodel each room in a home to add “green” features.
- How to Determine a Fair Price, and Do It Quickly!
10:15-11:45 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 255 and 257
Presenter: Mike Gorman, TechKnowledge, Lakeland, Fla.
This session examines how to eliminate bottlenecks in estimating, how to determine a fair price for work quickly and accurately and how to streamline the process of getting new work.
- Your Business. Your Life. Taking the Struggle Out of This Balancing Act
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 255 and 257
Presenter: Clay Nelson, Consulting Services Network, Santa Barbara, Calif.
This session examines how to balance business with personal life — even in the most trying of circumstances.
- Cheap Tricks ’09 Vegas-Style: Simple Technology Solutions to Big Business Problems!
1:15- 2:45 p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 258 and 260
Presenter: Joe Stoddard, Mountain Consulting Group, LLC, Lawrenceville, Pa.
This fast-paced session will show attendees the latest Web ware, software, hardware, Internet services and handheld devices available today — and how to effectively use them in business.
- Controlling Profits With QuickBooks: Tips, Techniques and Opinions
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 255 and 257
Presenter: Diane C.O. Gilson, CQBPA, Info Plus Accounting, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich.
This session will cover QuickBooks functions: In-house Accounting: Pros and Cons; Item List Secrets; Estimates and Change Orders as Cost Controls; Speed, Accuracy and Control with Purchase Orders; Time and Labor Burden; Promoting Profits with Variance Reports; Faster, Bigger Bank Draws; and Cleaner Closings.
Friday, Jan. 23
- Business Planning for Profits
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, South 233
Presenter: Vince Butler, CGR, CAPS, Butler Brothers Corp, Manassas, Va.
This session will discuss the importance of developing and implementing a business plan to achieve financial goals and demonstrate a simple and effective process for completing a basic business plan. Attendees will be told about the financial concepts of budgeting, break-even analysis, performance ratios and long-range, strategic planning.
- The Paper Trail: Systems and Forms for a Successful Building Business
10:15-11:45 a.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, North 255 and 257
Presenter: William Asdal, Asdal Builders LLC, Chester, N.J.
This session will examine flowchart system business forms that will help remodelers master the six competencies of their business: sales and marketing, construction communication, estimating, production and safety, business management and financial management. Each of these competencies will be built into a flowcharted system and explained.
For more information and to register for education classes, click here.
For information about NAHB Remodelers events, education and activities at the Builders’ Show, visit www.nahb.org/remodelersatIBS.
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