When Bad Things Happen to Good Buildings

The presence of various historically-deficient building materials such as polybutylene piping, fire-retardant treated plywood, and aluminum branch wiring is considered a “red flag” by real estate investors, managers, and lenders. The identification of these...

The Game of Pricing

One of the areas of business that I enjoy the most is the game of pricing: figuring out the highest fees we can get on any given project so that the client sees the value of our work and signs the contract. Whether it is a single project in the middle of nowhere or a...