The Restoration Lawyer Quick Catalog

MAXIMIZE COLLECTIONS

Contractors all over the nation now have an opportunity to take charge of their projects with carefully crafted contract forms, guidance on Assignments,
insurance information authorization letters, and the ultimate guide to collections.

Master Service Agreement

Master Service Agreement


Get More Commercial Work Faster!

The Master Service Agreement (MSA) is a “one time;’ standardized set of terms and conditions that will apply to all projects you perform for high priority commercial clients.
Negotiate terms, conditions, and pricing once before there is an emergency. Bypass the repetitive contracting process so you can get right to work every time your client has a loss.

Features of the MSA:

  • Commits the customer to pay regardless of whether insurance pays
  • Sets forth a deadline for the customer to object to invoices
  • Imposes interest, administrative service charges, and collection costs for delinquent payments
  • Allows contractor to suspend performance when progress payments are past due
  • And much more!

The success of your collections depends on a variety of factors, and while we cannot guarantee your success, we offer a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, or your money back, no questions asked.

Streamlined Contracting Process I Enhanced Disaster Readiness I Increased Commercial Job Volume

MOLD REMEDIATION CONTRACT

MOLD REMEDIATION CONTRACT


Ed Cross’s standardized Mold Remediation Contract will feature provisions to allow you to address all the issues recommended in the new IICRC S520 Mold Remediation Standard, including:

  • Scope
  • Criteria for determining the success of the remediation
  • Price
  • Collateral Damage
  • Limitations, Complexities, Complications, and Conflicts
  • Permits
  • Disclaimers
  • Methods to Resolve Conflicts
  • Change Orders
  • And more!

 
The Mold Remediation Contract is not a complete contract package. It is an add-on to your existing contract package. It is not state-specific. It is your responsibility to engage legal counsel in each jurisdiction in which you will perform mold remediation work to add the notices required in those jurisdictions and revise the contract, as needed, to bring it into compliance with local law. For the additional documents necessary for a complete contract package, please see www.EdCross.com/contracts.

Streamlined Contracting Process I Enhanced Disaster Readiness I Increased Commercial Job Volume

The Book on Overhead and Profit

The Book on Overhead and Profit


Take Back Control. Reclaim Your Independence.

For too long, powerful forces have chipped away at the freedom of restoration contractors—controlling pricing, dictating terms, and undermining fair competition.

It’s time to fight back.

The Book on Overhead & Profit is a step-by-step roadmap to reclaim your autonomy, strengthen your business, and command respect.

This is not theory. It’s a battle plan based on real-world victories. Learn the strategies employed by The Restoration Lawyer, Ed Cross, to recover $335,000 from Allstate in a dispute over a $33,000 balance for overhead and profit.

Discover how to:

  • Crush the myths about “standard pricing,” “complexity,” and “10% overhead”
  • Prove project complexity
  • Document a file to get paid paid O&P and Supervision Charges
  • Command adjuster conversations with professionalism and tactical  empathy

Build a business that insurers can’t ignore—and policyholders trust

You don’t need permission to operate independently.

You don’t need to be the cheapest—you need to be the most credible.
You are the front line of the free market restoration movement.
It’s time to stop playing defense.
It’s time to lead.

The Book on Assignment of Benefits

A Training Program with Fillable Forms for 50 States.

Assignments allow restorers to cause insurance companies to pay a reasonable price for restoration service, and to pay a second time if the insurer sends the restorer’s money to the policyholder.

Ed Cross Assignment of benefits 2nd edition

The book includes:

  • A super-charged “Assignment of Insurance Rights/AOB” (fillable forms for 50 states)
  • Direction of Pay Clauses
  • Customizable “Notice of Assignment” form letters to send to carriers
  • “Insurance Information Release Authorization” form to be used separately or in conjunction with the AOR. The “policy controls,” so restorers need to see the limits and exclusions on the policy.
  • Detailed instructions on presenting and prosecuting assignments
  • Scripts to overcome insurance company objections

Digital or Softcover

There is no greater way to empower a restorer to recover fair market value for restoration service than with a properly-drafted Assignment of Insurance Rights.

The Book on Restoration Collections

A Training Program with Customizable Bad Faith Demand Letters for 50 States.

The Ultimate Guide to Accelerating and Maximizing Restoration Receivables

You are entitled to Fair Market Value for your services, and we will show you how we have collected many tens of millions of dollars for restorers, with our battle-tested 10-Steps.

ed cross author on restoration collections

Includes downloadable Demand Letters for all 50 states

Litigation can often be avoided while still overcoming problems with adjuster lowballing, the inappropriate use of standardized prices, interference from third-party consultants and bill reviewers, workmanship complaints from customers, and vigorous opposition from lawyers representing carriers and policyholders. Learn ways to properly leverage mechanic’s liens, neutralize adjuster excuses, and cut through the smokescreen.

Digital or Softcover

The Restoration Collections ToolKit

The Restoration Collections ToolKit


Nail your collections

The Restoration Collections Toolkit is here to help you nail your collections. This easy-to-use package provides both the blueprint and the tools for you to build a successful collections system from the outset of each job. Securing payment for restoration work starts before you even before the customer signs a contract. The Toolkit will provide guidance and resources as you bring your collection files to completion.

What’s in the Package

  • The Blueprint
  • Collections Checklist
  • Scripts For Collection Calls
  • Demand Letter Template
  • Financial Calculations Spreadsheet
  • Ghosting Adjuster Letter Template
  • Tortious Interference By Insurance Adjuster Letter Template
  • Invoicing For Successful Collections And Sample Invoice
  • Settlement Agreement And Payment Plan Forms
  • Justification For Customized Restoration Price List Form Letter
  • Call Scripts For Adjuster Issues, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, And More.
  • Ledger Of Claims Accounting By Insurer

Contents Restoration Contract Package + Training Program

Contents Restoration Contract Package + Training Program


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PROTECT YOURSELF TODAY

Contents restoration companies can now take advantage of these special contract forms and provisions for inventories, packouts, restorationstorage, and packbacks. All forms listed below are included in this extensive package.

What’s in the Package

  • Contents Restoration Contract
  • Work Order
  • Change Order
  • Disposal Authorization
  • Salvageable Contents Inventory
  • Total Loss Contents Inventory
  • Packout Release Authorization
  • Mold Release
  • Refusal of Recommendations & Release of Liability
  • Refusal of Recommendations Form Letter
  • Certificates of Completion & Satisfaction
  • Visitors Daily Log
  • Instructions
  • Over 2 Hours of Training Video by Ed Cross
  • BONUS California Household Mover Form Package

General Cleaning & Restoration
Contract Package

General Cleaning & Restoration Contract Package


Bringing our expertise to whichever state you’re in!

This package is ready to be made compliant. Instead of spending thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer to create forms from scratch, we offer a much more economical alternative so your lawyer can hit the ground running with our specific restoration contract provisions prepared by industry expert, Ed Cross.

What’s in the Package

  • Residential Restoration Contract with Terms & Conditions
  • Commercial Restoration Contract
  • Change Order
  • Notice of the Right to Cancel
  • Refusal of Recommendations & Release of Liability
  • Contents Disposal Authorization
  • And, more…

California Cleaning & Restoration Contract Package plus Training Program

California Cleaning & Restoration Contract Package
plus Training Program


PROTECT YOURSELF TODAY

To comply with CA state statutes, restorers end up with a minimum of 8 pages that need to be seen and/or signed by the customer.

What’s in the Package

  • 1-page Home Improvement Contract
  • 1-page Terms & Conditions
  • Detailed Instruction Guide and Scripts for Each Form to Improve Job Execution & Customer Understanding
  • 2-page straightforward Commercial Contract
  • Paired-down 3, 5, 7 day Right to Cancel Notice & Waiver
  • 35 forms to pick and choose from for each unique job
  • And, more…

The Book On Florida Restoration Contracts

The Book On Florida Restoration Contracts


PROTECT YOURSELF TODAY

Florida restorers have a package of forms ready to use and battle-tested.


What’s in the Book?

  • Includes links to downloadable contracts custom-tailored to Florida law
  • Florida Residential Restoration Contract & Work Authorization
  • Florida Commercial Restoration Contract
  • Notice of Residential Construction Lien Rights
  • Change Order
  • Mold Notice & Disclaimer
  • Release of Liability for Mold
  • Mortgage Information Release
  • Release of Liability for Refusal to Follow Contractor’s
  • Recommendations
  • Certificate of Satisfaction
  • Form Letter to Uncooperative Customers

Michigan Cleaning & Restoration Contract Package


PROTECT YOURSELF TODAY

Michigan restorers have a package of forms ready to use.


What’s in the Package

  • Home Improvement Contract
  • 1-page Terms & Conditions
  • Mold Notice & Disclaimer
  • Release of Liability for Mold
  • Notice of the Right to Cancel
  • Mortgage Information Release
  • Refusal of Recommendations and Release of Liability
  • Refusal Confirmation Letter
  • And, more…

Texas Cleaning & Restoration Contract Package plus Training Program

Texas Cleaning & Restoration Contract Package
plus Training Program


PROTECT YOURSELF TODAY

Don’t mess Texas…. rings true for complying with state statutes and the licensing board.

What’s in the Package

  • 1-page Service Agreement
  • 1-page Terms & Conditions
  • Detailed Instruction Guide and Scripts for Each Form to Improve Job Execution & Customer Understanding
  • 2-page straightforward Commercial Contract
  • Residential Construction Disclosure (required by statute)
  • Extensive pack of forms to pick and choose from for each unique job
  • And, more…

The Book on Washington State Restoration Contracts

The Book on Washington State Restoration Contracts


Don’t Use homemade contracts!

Our standardized Cleaning & Restoration Package for the State of Washington is a robust collection of contract forms, disclaimers, disclosures, forms, and guidance material designed by experts in the legal and financial issues that impact Washington restorers. Nothing like it is available anywhere, and now it is available to Washington restorers at a small fraction of the cost to hire a lawyer to draft contracts from scratch.

What’s in the Package

  • Washington-Compliant Residential Contract
  • Washington Commercial Contract
  • Change Order
  • Mold Notice & Disclaimer
  • Release of Liability for Mold
  • Mortgage Information Release
  • Release of Liability for Refusal to Follow Contractor’s Recommendations
  • Form Letter to Uncooperative Customers
  • Customer’s Certificate of Completion and Satisfaction (buy separately)
  • Consumer Disclosures
  • Scripts for Smooth Presentation of Each Form

Subcontract Package

Subcontract Package


Restore your confidence in subcontracts!

What’s in the Package

  • Master Subcontract with Instructions
  • Work Order
  • Rate and Materials Schedule
  • Change Order
  • Worker’s Confidential Daily Health Questionnaire
  • And, more…

California Household Mover Forms

CA Household Mover Forms


The State of California has very specific legal requirements for the forms that must be used to move households.

What’s in the Package

  • Basis for Mover’s Estimated Cost of Services and Table of Measurement
  • Estimated Cost of Service
  • Change Order for Services
  • Agreement for Moving Services
  • Shipping Order and Freight Bill
  • Important Notice About Your Move
  • Important Information for Persons Moving Household Goods (aka the “booklet”)
  • Maximum Rates and Rules for the Transportation of Used Property
  • Instructions
  • Relevant advisory and news release by the Bureau of Household Goods

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