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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#526: PRO TALK With Remodeling-Business Expert Victoria Downing

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Leisure, Construction, Keepcraftalive, Home & Garden, How To, Drywall, Craftsmanship, Education, Homebuilding, Houses

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this Pro-Talk podcast, FHB contributor Ian Schwandt talks to Victoria Downing, president of Remodeler’s Advantage, about understanding business financials and the importance of learning from your peers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's no place else that I know of that you can be totally open and transparent

0:12.0

with a group of business owners that knows exactly what you're going through.

0:16.0

They've had their own challenges, their own successes, they've tried different things than you have,

0:20.0

but they're basically doing the same thing.

0:25.6

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building industry professionals.

0:32.6

This is Fine Home Building contributor and production manager at TDS Custom Construction, Ian Schwant.

0:40.5

Today I am joined by Victoria Downing, president of Remodeler's Advantage.

0:46.2

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding podcast

0:51.9

at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast. You can leave feedback and

0:58.0

ask questions there too. So Victoria, thank you for joining us. It's great to have you on you.

1:04.5

Very exciting. Not only to be with you, a member of one of our of our production manager

1:09.8

roundtables and all of that but to be part of

1:11.8

fine home buildings very exciting so thank you yeah i've talked about my experiences at the round

1:18.3

table quite a bit on the the main podcast with patrick so i think it's uh great to complete that circle

1:24.6

and and have the boss on here yeah no kids at kids. At least for the time being, right?

1:29.6

Right. Yeah. So for those of the listeners who haven't heard of Remodeler's Advantage, can you give us

1:36.2

some background about what your services are and what you do for your member companies?

1:42.8

Sure. Remoddler's Advantage has been around since the late 80s,

1:46.4

so I've been with it myself since 1990,

1:49.3

so a long time dedicated to this industry.

1:52.7

And remodeler's advantage is just for the remodeling industry.

1:57.1

Our mission statement says that we light the path of greater success for motivated remodeling professionals.

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