A row-house contractor in Pittsburgh working through a client's estate. A registered contractor in Boise navigating dual liability on a single job. A Nashville project lead learning what "up the ladder" actually costs. A rural Ohio operator discovering a number nobody warned him about. A Pensacola roofing-adjacent remodeler chasing tools that keep disappearing. A Providence contractor building toward something bigger.

Six general contractors, six cities, six genuinely different businesses — followed chapter by chapter through licensing, contracts, liens, worker classification, and the compliance layer that separates a contractor who survives a downturn from one who doesn't.

Groundwork: General Contractor & Remodeling maps the full sixteen-stage roadmap of the trade, with a Regulatory Record section grounded in real law: mechanics lien statutes, IRS worker classification, OSHA fall protection, FTC's Cooling-Off Rule, and more.