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Three ways to end a dispute over a modest amount, priced honestly. The one people dismiss out of hand is sometimes the right answer.
Continue reading Small claims, mediation, or writing it off. What each route costs in money and time
The wage is the smallest number in the calculation and the only one most owners run. The rest of it decides whether the hire works.
Continue reading The first hire has to pay for themselves. Working out what that actually takes
The most expensive fraud a household is likely to encounter arrives as a routine message from a person they have been corresponding with for weeks.
Continue reading The email that changes the wiring instructions, and why it arrives on closing day
The mechanics of finding somebody have changed almost completely in twenty years. The part that decides whether it works has not moved at all.
Continue reading Hiring a first crew member then and now. What changed, and what did not
Several different deadlines run at once in any dispute, set by different people, and the earliest one is usually the one nobody mentions.
Continue reading The clock on a dispute starts before you know you have one. Deadlines that matter
Nobody is withholding anything on your behalf anymore, and the bill arrives on a schedule that does not match the way the money came in.
Continue reading Your first year self employed? Set aside the tax before you spend the money