Lane Boland’s first contracting business was not profitable.

In fact, it was a burning dumpster fire of cash.

His response to the cash crunch was what most contractors do when profit is broken: he tried to sell his way out of it. Instead of fixing the real problems in estimating, project management, production control, and margin protection, he kept expanding.

Within two years, he had built three wholly owned locations in Kansas City, Dallas, and Denver, along with two partner locations in Austin and Jacksonville. Each location was doing $1 million to $2 million in revenue, but the same problems followed him everywhere. Jobs were not finishing as estimated. Profit was leaking. And the business felt like an adult daycare with way too much financial risk.

Eventually, he sold the locations to his employees.

Over the next two years, while living in Puerto Rico, Lane became obsessed with solving the problem that nearly broke him. He studied the operators in the remodeling industry who were producing stronger margins, cleaner projects, better teams, and more predictable growth.

Then he had the chance to test what he had learned inside a fast-growing remodeling company.

That became the proof point.

In roughly six months, annualized sales increased from about $8 million to $11 million. Gross profit rose from 27.6% to more than 37%. Net take-home profit increased from roughly 2% to 17%.

Owner profit increased more than 8x.

That experience showed Lane what was missing in the remodeling industry.

There was plenty of training on financial management. Plenty of training on project management. But almost nothing focused entirely on the hard middle ground growing remodelers actually face: scaling sales and operations at the same time while protecting healthy gross margins above 35%.

That is why Remodel Commanders was born.

After being named Pro Remodeler 40 Under 40 for 2023, Lane Boland went all in on Remodel Commanders and now serves as Managing Director, helping contractors build stronger sales systems, cleaner operations, better estimating controls, and more profitable companies.