Sentences with phrase «general contractor profit»

Yet that $ 40,000 includes contingency and overhead costs and general contractor profit.

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The problem with the vanity presses isn't that you are paying for those things — that's self - publishing — the problem is that you are paying a «general contractor» to provide all of those services with significant mark - up and no incentive to provide quality services and still, the general contractor takes the lion's share of the profit.

If you go online and find the best possible people in editing, artwork, layout, formatting and printing — not the cheapest or even the most expensive, but the best for your specific book — you won't pay half of what a vanity press will charge you just to get started and you'll end up making a much bigger profit, not just because you aren't sharing with a general contractor, but because you end up with a higher quality book that will actually sell at a price people will actually pay.

«Ask yourself if you solely want to profit from the practice or if you are willing to invest back into the practice regardless of the return on investment time frame,» says general contractor Joe McCarthy of JF McCarthy Construction in West Chester, Ill. «Financing for start - up practices was once about $ 675,000 and is now more like $ 450,000.

Representing a not - for - profit company in a lawsuit in the District of Puerto Rico against an insurance and bonding company for the company's failure to pay or perform under a surety bond that guaranteed a general contractor's obligation to construct a housing facility for the elderly.

2011)-- This appeal also arose out of a putative class action alleging a failure to pay general contractor overhead and profit as a part of the settlement of property insurance claims.

Some insurance companies have refused to pay policyholders for a general contractor's overhead and profit (O&P), which is typically 21 percent of the estimated material and labor costs, when policyholders decide not to rebuild or repair their homes.

Profits of single - family general contractors tend to be higher in Northeast where they average 7.6 percent of the total construction receipts.