Gary Ransone

Gary Ransone has worked for the past 35 years as an attorney focused on construction law. He has also worked in the trenches as a laborer, carpenter, general contractor, home builder and remodeler. He is the author of The Contractor’s Legal Kit, including the digital updated version available at TheContractor’sLegalKit.com, where the author’s complete set of editable user-friendly construction agreements and forms for homebuilders and remodelers is just a click away.

Gary Ransone's Posts

  • Business

    Are you prepared to deal with unanticipated price increases so you don’t have to absorb a major financial hit?

  • Legal

    Mold has been around for millennia, but in recent years public concern about its presence in homes and buildings has metastasized into near hysteria. This has spawned a legal atmosphere in which it's relatively easy for unscrupulous owners to fabricate huge mold lawsuits against contractors.

  • Legal

    Most residential construction disputes happen because the contractor and the homeowner have different expectations about how a job will be handled.

  • Legal

    Many of the costly owner/contractor disputes I see in my legal practice involve change orders — or the lack thereof. I know of innumerable residential contractors who, having failed to obtain signed change orders, have eaten hundreds or even thousands of dollars of legitimate extra work at the end of a job just so they could get the homeowner to release that final check.

  • Making sure you get paid for change orders

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