Financial guidance for restoration business owners, from a fellow restoration owner.
92% of contractors can't find workers. In restoration that shortage doesn't just delay jobs — it quietly inflates your true labor cost and eats your margin.
The average business loses 5% of revenue to fraud, and restoration's cash-heavy field ops are a textbook target. The fixes are cheap and boring.
Fire jobs get the attention, but Triple-I data shows the frequent water claim — 1 in 67 homes a year — is what actually carries a restoration company.
The median small business holds 27 days of cash, and a quarter hold under 13. Why restoration's cash math is worse — and how to fix it before the storm.
A 50-year-old economics idea called the winner's curse explains why the busiest restoration shop in town is often the least profitable — and how to break the pattern.
Typical net profit margins in restoration run 10–20%. Here's how to benchmark your performance, what squeezes margins, and how to fix them without cutting corners.
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