Published completion and placement rates are averages over a denominator somebody else defined. Four people adjacent to the decision can tell you what the number leaves out.
A property manager with two matching buildings found one was burning through floor finish twice as fast. The cause was eight feet of missing entry matting, and the bill landed in four other budgets.
Delays in a linked sale rarely come from one slow party. They come from four or five structural dependencies, and the waiting has a monthly price you can calculate.
In the first two days after a water loss, who may legally dry, cut and haul your house depends less on the industry standard than on your state and county rules.
Consulting pitches are built to be convincing. Five checks, and the documents behind them, that separate a firm that can do the work from one that can describe it.
Two lawyers can quote the same contingency percentage and hand you checks that differ by thousands, because the number they multiply is not the same number.