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How to elevate your retail sales game

Floor Covering News

I traveled to Dallas for CCA’s convention; Vegas for Surfaces; and Denver to speak at the Footprints conference. They treat it as if it’s as simple as painting drywall. A great sales presentation can make the difference between selling the job for $4/foot or getting $8/per foot. A great sales presentation lives on forever.

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022: Residential Construction Costs

Life of an Architect

Construction Management Fees and Site Superintendent Fees (in my area of the world, these are typically set at 10% to 20% of the total construction cost) Sales Tax Permits Hardscape (exterior built items i.e. sidewalks, driveways, patios, pools, etc.) 425 per Square Foot (and up) Bring on the monks and other artisans from around the world!

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Here’s How Much It Costs to Sell Your Home in 2019

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

The bulk of the expense in selling your house is the closing costs, which include real agent commissions, sales taxes and state transfer taxes. The actual amount is a percentage based on the home’s sale price and can vary widely. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX: $14,580. Interior painting: $1,245. This figure is an average.

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Republic: Daring to be different

Floor Covering News

Our sales that year were probably between $30 and $40 million.”. Today, Republic sells a little more than 300 SKUs, half of which is SPC at 60% of sales, with laminate about 25%-30% of sales and wood accounting for the remainder. For instance, we take a line that was just a micro-bevel or square edge; now, we make it painted.

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ARTS-inspired

Design With an Attitude

With all we have been doing this summer: the pop-up store in Vail, the 30 Days of Design celebration in conjunction with our 30th anniversary and our annual spectacular loading dock sale, it’s exciting to be recognized in a national contest. The paint is the background for many designs, but has to be interesting in its own right.

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What Home Buyers Really Want | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

and home sale] Okay, maybe there was some hyperbole there on my part, but I still think that the things that people see and get excited about have more to do with their ability to project their lives into a particular lifestyle. In Dallas there is a HUGE spec home market and we compete against them for clients.

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You should say 'Yes' more often | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

It’s actually for sale at the time of this writing and can be yours for $4,995,000 – pretty reasonable if you ask me. maybe in a month or so I will be able to smear paint. On Saturday, I spent the entire day looking at the work of Howard van Doren Shaw. Something like that Kerry Hogue well I have the paneling done.