How Many $ Per Square Foot?

I commonly have folks ask how much something is going to cost per square foot. This is an interesting question, I suppose, if you are buying a home or having one built. You simply divide how many dollars you spent by the total square feet to find out how much you paid...

How Much Transparency is Too Much?

In the world of residential remodeling, each contractor has a different method of explaining the price for a project. If the project is dynamic or complicated in any way, you may want several contractors to give bids on the project. I guarantee that there is going to...

Escrow Account Anyone?

At Levco, we are always innovating. After all, one of our motto’s is “A better idea always wins” To that end we now have the ability to take payments through our client portal. We have consistently struggled with a problem that rears it’s ugly...

On Setting Expectations

Remodeling is a complicated and difficult profession to master. Like me, most owners are very involved in our daily businesses. in an effort to stay ahead of the game, I regularly step back and give my processes a tune up especially when remodeling becomes painful.  I...

When Things Go Wrong

We have recently had several unfortunate incidents where things went wrong. We have also had a few near misses along the way, despite the fact that one of Levco builders mottoes is “we always win”. So many problems are avoided with an ounce of prevention....