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  Family and estate lawyers see a lot—and it is not always pretty. Accordingly, attorneys advice that it’s best to button up estate plans carefully, so that conflicts cannot spring up through the cracks. Here,…
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  How’s your cash position? Pointing out “no cash flow” is never an option, financial professionals who work with contractors encourage increased attention to management decisions vis a vis cash flow. Of course doing so…
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  Promised public dollars are becoming tangible in the form of projects across the country, and the flow of funds and builds in real time is anticipated to continue propelling construction opportunities. For example, the…
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  Yes, it is possible to serve as an executor for a deceased loved one—and be a beneficiary of some of their assets too. In fact, quite commonly, the executor named when a will is…
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Estate Planning Optimized We tend to equate estate planning with preparing for death and gifting assets to loved ones. In the face of both longer life spans and increased awareness (thanks COVID?) that anything can…
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  Even as inflation and the labor shortage has driven salaries throughout construction up, it remains difficult for builders to hire employees. Wages alone are proving insufficient to attract and retain workers. Here are the…
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  Publicly funded building projects are where a lot of the action for contractors will continue to be over the next several years. With provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) calling for…
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  As public funding for infrastructure and semiconductor manufacturing plants gets projects off the ground in regions across the country, construction experts say hiring and retaining workers could get harder. Since big projects are likely…
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  Lots of the action for contractors now—and in the foreseeable future—is, in one way or another, tied to publicly funded builds. In addition to the billions of federal and state allocations moving infrastructure forward,…
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