Mega Opportunities For Decorative Coatings Specialists
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal about the recent sale of the Cincinnati Mills mall in Ohio. The mall sold for the dirt cheap price of $20.00 per square foot. Compare that to nationwide average mall prices of over $130.00 per square foot. Thats a sale at 15 cents on the dollar.
I’ve [...]
How To Maintain a Decorative Concrete Floor
About a year ago I put together this research report about maintaining decorative concrete floors.
I spent a lot of time discussing the technical aspects of maintenance with the folks at Formula Tecnologies. When decorative concrete floors are properly maintained they will last indefinately.
Floors like these above with proper maintence will actually get better over [...]
Reviving The Economy With Concrete?
As a property rehabber I have used decorative coatings for years. The reason, every rehab is different and nothing is ever square or level. If you try and knock down walls, rebuild floors or get into big construction you are done, you will lose money. Knowing the products exist is a big start. Check out [...]
Concrete Countertops at the Arizona Snowbowl
Lynda Apple and Michael Whalen sent over these photos of some of the projects they have completed. Michael and Lynda have carved an envious lifestyle at the base of the Arizona Snowbowl. They are minutes from the chairlifts at the Arizona Snowbowl so they get to ski whenever the conditions are right.
Most of the time [...]
The Contractors Guide To Profits
The Contractors Guide To Prospering In Niche Markets has gotton off to a very positive start for the year.
It’s a 100 page workbook thats teaches a very focused business program. The concepts are fairly simple and a lot easier than doing it wrong.
Since the release of the book available in a downdload format 557 copies [...]
Clothing That Can Put $6,0000 in Your Pocket This Year!
I met Hakan Engstrom last fall at The Decorative Arts Show. Hakan is a decorative artist based in Sweden. Hakan has designed designed highly functional pants that will actually make you more productive. The reason-they are designed with pockets where you need them. You can carry a lot of the basic tools in all the [...]
Resurfacing Garage Floors
Last summer I reported about my beautuful acid stained garage floor as you can see above. It can out beautiful and cost me very little. I sealed it with a urethane which enhanced the brown acid stain floor.
Well no more.
As the weather started getting colder this fall and we started using the garage everyday the [...]
Opportunities In A Challenged Market
Big Opportunities In The Swimming Pool Market
Now that we have a new president maybe the markets will feel a new confidence. With Obama at the helm the liberal press has nothing to complain about.
Despite the gloomy reporting lately there are still plenty of interesting opportunties. In The Wall Street Journal there was an article about [...]
Hanley Wood Market Alert for January
Hanley Wood just released their housing alert newsletter for January. They do an excellent job of reporting the current state of the residential housing market. The writers of the Beige Book at the Fed should take notice of quality reporting.
Here are a few statistics from their report.
S & P 500 Index – down 6.7% [...]
State Of The Real Estate Market
Having survived the real estate markets of 1990-1995 I get of a lot of questions from contractors, brokers and landlords asking what I think about the market today. So I thought I’d check around and do some online research before I lay my thoughts out for the world to criticize.
First I found the just released [...]
Vertical Artisans Amazing Concrete Waterfeature
Nathan Giffen founder of Vertical Artisans and Mike Vernelson a concrete artist from Queensbury NY built this concrete waterfeature.
It sits in the entrance foyer of a residential home in the Chicago area complete with a functional waterfall. It’s hard to believe that it’s made of concrete but then it would be impossible to create this [...]
Contractors Survival Guide – Just In Time
I just released The Professional Contractors Guide To Prospering In Niche Markets. The Guide as I refer to it is a must read for contractors and manufacturers. It shows how to analyze the “Sweet Spot” for any business. Once the sweet spot is identified then you target your market.
An example I use is a floor [...]
