Since winning the National Remodeling Quality Award five years ago, Neil Kelly in Portland, Ore., has been listed as one of the best companies to work for in Oregon and has been given a local Better Business Bureau award.

The Bainbridge Crew of Charlotte, N.C., earned $7 million last year and plans to surpass that amount in 2000.

Communication between remodeler and customer is made easy with Dear Homeowner: A Book of Customer Service Letters, by Carol Smith.

The U.S. Census Bureau has made substantial upward revisions dating back to 1984 to its C-50 data series, Expenditures for Improvements and Repairs of Residential Properties.

For quick answers to tax questions, the IRS offers online advice targeted to smaller businesses.

What is it about the $140 billion-a-year remodeling industry that keeps it from being acknowledged as a premier business?

Seniors’ housing is a hot business. The building industry relies on changing needs to create demand.

n late July, the U.S. Census Bureau confirmed what many remodelers had already suspected—that the remodeling market is much larger than previous statistical research suggested.

When Bob Fry found himself short on subcontractors to get through a busy work period, he added more labor in an unusual way -- he purchased it.

Union labor enables St. Louis-area remodelers to find skilled and reliable help at rates slightly higher than nonunion workers cost in the area.