Best Practices
Home Builder Company Culture Defined
Culture is as culture does. A look at how your company’s actions and behaviors today become the culture you’re known for tomorrow
Your New Home Sales Staff Need an Attitude Adjustment?
The importance of a good attitude goes beyond management; a homebuilders sales staff needs to have one, too. Columnist John Rymer details the right approach to the right attitude.
ProBuilder Product Report: Roofing and Siding
Appearing in the May 2007 issue of Professional Builder magazine, here are a few roofing and siding products available from Crane, Owens Corning, Royal Moldings, CertainTeed and others.
Blame the Messenger
I am a member of a group that in some quarters is viewed with the same distrust as a gang: the media. We are renowned for nosiness and invasion of privacy. We are one more example of the decline of civilized society. This was brutally proved on the campus of Virginia Tech University after the horrific shootings by a deranged killer.
ProBuilder Product Report: Insulation and Housewrap
Included from the May 2007 edition of Professional Builder magazine are products to keep houses dry during construction and warm during those cold winter months.
Home Builders Miss Boat on Production Process Improvement
Can production process improvement push past finance and marketing in home builders’ priority list? Columnist Scott Sedam ponders this and more in his column.
ProBuilder Product Report: New Products
Featuring the latest innovations from top building industry manufacturers.
How Home Builders Can Gear Up for Growth
Some builders anticipate growth and prepare; others hope for it and when it comes are crushed under the weight of increased volume. With proper planning, a builder can implement scaleable operations and grow in a disciplined and controlled manner to make the most of opportunities for incremental and even geographic growth.
Housing Activity Stuck Near the Bottom
Falling new-home sales kept permits and starts near the low point for this building cycle despite better home-buying conditions.
