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Launch Your Renovation Company: The LAUNCH Method for Licences, Permits, Contracts, and Cash in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia: Cover Before Yo
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ISBN13: 9798167992214
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You can frame a wall that would shame a master carpenter, set tile so true it looks like liquid, and finish a kitchen that makes a client cry. Then someone asks for your permit, your insurance certificate, or your sales tax number, and you realize the hardest part of owning a renovation company was never the work.
Skill gets the job. Paper keeps the company.
Launch Your Renovation Company follows new owners in four countries: four Canadians, Dev, a carpenter in Surrey, British Columbia; Renée, a tile setter working the Quebec and Ontario border from Gatineau; Callum, a former site supervisor in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; and Tamsin, a finisher in Hamilton, Ontario who learns exactly which trades she may not touch; plus Marcus in Columbus, Ohio, Gemma in Leeds, England, and Mia in Brisbane, Australia. Dev, a carpenter in Surrey, British Columbia; Renée, a tile setter working the Quebec and Ontario border from Gatineau; Callum, a former site supervisor in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; and Tamsin, a finisher in Hamilton, Ontario who learns exactly which trades she may not touch. Their stories turn the maze of registrations, licences, permits, insurance, contracts, and tax into a plan you can follow in order, and a Where You Work section in every chapter shows how each step lands in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
The LAUNCH Method gives you six steps:
Cover before you build.
This book offers general guidance and is not legal, tax, or insurance advice. Rules vary by country, state, province, territory, and municipality and change over time.
Launch Your Renovation Company follows new owners in four countries: four Canadians, Dev, a carpenter in Surrey, British Columbia; Renée, a tile setter working the Quebec and Ontario border from Gatineau; Callum, a former site supervisor in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; and Tamsin, a finisher in Hamilton, Ontario who learns exactly which trades she may not touch; plus Marcus in Columbus, Ohio, Gemma in Leeds, England, and Mia in Brisbane, Australia. Dev, a carpenter in Surrey, British Columbia; Renée, a tile setter working the Quebec and Ontario border from Gatineau; Callum, a former site supervisor in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; and Tamsin, a finisher in Hamilton, Ontario who learns exactly which trades she may not touch. Their stories turn the maze of registrations, licences, permits, insurance, contracts, and tax into a plan you can follow in order, and a Where You Work section in every chapter shows how each step lands in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
The LAUNCH Method gives you six steps:
- L: Lay the legal base. Choose a structure before a name, register, and open the federal, provincial, and municipal accounts your company needs.
- A: Apply for approvals. Run a permit routine, understand inspections, and know which trades only licensed people may do.
- U: Underwrite the risk. Match insurance to your real work, protect your crew, and hire and subcontract properly.
- N: Nail it down in writing. Use clear contracts, signed change orders, and warranties that fit consumer protection rules.
- C: Count and collect the cash. Price for real profit, handle GST or HST, forecast cash, and win clients without overclaiming.
- H: Handle trouble and grow. Settle disputes early, learn your payment rights, and grow at the pace your systems can carry.
Cover before you build.
This book offers general guidance and is not legal, tax, or insurance advice. Rules vary by country, state, province, territory, and municipality and change over time.
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