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Kelly Cowan on why the best trade for a contractor is a law degree

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Kelly Cowan runs Kelly Cowan Designs, a design-build firm in Santa Rosa, California, and wrote The Great American Contractor, a satire about the heroes and villains crawling around under your house. Kelly explains why a contractor is a gambler who never gets to deal, how he handled a client who dug up his work and demanded $30,000, why time and materials is the fairest way to build but a bid lets him sleep at night, and why small contractors should hire someone just to keep clients posted.

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