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 The November 1997 issue of Roofer Magazinecontained a feature article by this editor that did not win any awards or elicit tons of reader mail.  

Whether you consider yourself a commercial or residential roofing contractor, or one who works on structures of all types, you should be offering metal roofing as an option to many of your prospective customers

This month I am doing three things I try to avoid in this space: promoting our own products, writing about politics, and asking a favor.

 Sometimes budgets are not just about money.  

It never fails: change is hard. Even when most everything goes well, it is hard. 

In my role as a manager of facilities housing roofing and other building materials, one of the biggest pain points I encounter is finding reliable and flexible contractors — contractors of all kinds, ironically, except for roofing contractors, who typically work for my landlords.

When a startling piece of news relating to the roof-contracting industry crosses my radar I have a tendency to jump on it, but it has taken me months to make a public mention on this topic. 

The good news about the many issues we face in the roofing industry is that we will overcome most of them in time. I know because I have seen a lot of them come and go.

While it is not routine for me to use this space to tell you about other editorial features in the magazine, I just cannot contain my enthusiasm over our annual State of the Industry Report.