by IES | Jun 15, 2019 | IES, Insurance Adjuster Strategies, Podcast, Xactimate Estimates
How much does Xactimate pay for roofing tarping? The Practitioner Podcast – Episode 04. Property owners have the obligation of immediately mitigating damages. Tarping a roof 100% can be a great profit generator for roofing contractors, and can help win more...
by IES | Jun 13, 2019 | IES, Insurance Adjuster Strategies, Podcast, Xactimate Estimates
Welcome to another episode of The Practitioner Podcast! Xactimate pays significantly less and is not correct in many of its default trade settings in estimates for: RFG vs DMO, INS vs DMO, DRY vs DMO and much more. Xactimate trade differences pay less. Knowing how to...
by IES | May 26, 2019 | How I Write Xactimate Estimates And Sketch, IES, Xactimate Estimates
How to write an Xactimate estimate and Sketch (including O&P) – Part 4 – on a State Farm insurance restoration job, by Chad Michael, The Practitioner. Lots of strategies and tactics discussed in this edition of “How I Write Estimates –...
by IES | May 2, 2019 | IES, What's Wrong With This Insurance Estimate?, Xactimate Estimates
Huge results on this residential insurance restoration project from Hurricane Michael in the Panama City, Florida area. We discuss the original Tower Hill Insurance estimate for $182,556. Next we take a look at the Xactimate estimate that I wrote for $438k. Finally,...
by IES | Apr 27, 2019 | IES, Overhead and Profit Strategies, Xactimate Estimates
Explaining the history of Overhead and Profit: from the “three trades rule” to the current “it must reach the level of complexity and/or coordination required of a general contractor” rule. We also cover insight on how to obtain overhead and...
by IES | Apr 26, 2019 | IES, Insurance Restoration Sales And Marketing, Xactimate Estimates
Are you requiring your customers to show you their insurance Xactimate estimate paperwork before you’ll even deal with them? I think I understand why you’re doing that. However, please open your mind and look at this from another angle. It’s so very...