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How Much Does a Remodeling Business Consultant Cost? Phone Hours, Peer Groups and Coaching Years, Priced

A remodeling business consultant or coach costs from $300 for a single hour to $2,999 a month, on prices the providers print on their own pages, read October 27, 2026: Markup & Profit lists an hour of one-on-one phone time at $300, BuildFlow Consulting a one-time diagnostic for remodelers and builders at $950, Remodelers On The Rise group coaching at $497 a month, Remodelers Advantage a Roundtables peer-group seat at $1,243 a month after a $3,950 initiation fee, and Breakthrough Academy up to $2,999 a month after a $5,700 six-week start. The Revenue Review sits outside that monthly column: one fixed $4,500 for two weeks, counting where a remodeler’s money stalls between the signed contract and the final payment. Twelve months of fees, plus any joining or start-up fee, put the monthly options above between $5,964 and $41,688 — arithmetic, shown below, not quotes. Every price here is for help sold to the owner of a remodeling company; a homeowner hiring someone to oversee a renovation is buying a different service.

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Price list: what remodeling coaches, peer groups and consultants charge

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Each figure below is the provider’s own, printed on its own page and read on October 27, 2026. Nothing here is an endorsement or a review, and any of these prices can change after that date, so read the page again on the day of signing and get the number into the agreement.

  • Peer groups. Remodelers Advantage’s online store lists a Roundtables initiation fee of $3,950 and primary-member dues of $1,243 a month; its Roundtables page describes monthly microboard sessions and bi-monthly calls with the full group. The same store lists a business valuation service at $2,500, and its Remodelers University training library is $109 a month, or $588 for a year, on its own pricing page.
  • Group coaching with no term. Remodelers On The Rise prints its VIP Club at $497 a month on a month-to-month agreement: a library of recorded training plus a live group coaching call every Wednesday. Its six-session course on estimating and pricing, sold as recordings, is $1,497.
  • An hour at a time. Markup & Profit sells Focused Phone Time, one-on-one, at $150 for 30 minutes or $300 for an hour, on subjects its page lists such as P&Ls, contracts, estimating and sales procedures. Its 12-hour online Markup & Profit Intensive is $399.
  • A one-time diagnostic. BuildFlow Consulting, which says it is built for remodelers and builders, prints a flat $950 diagnostic: a 90-minute session, reviews of estimating, pricing, KPIs and capacity, and a written 90-day roadmap.
  • A workshop, then a year. Construction Consulting, which coaches established remodelers and custom home builders, prints a $500 business workshop of 60 to 90 minutes on Zoom; its coaching engagement runs 12 months and has no printed price.
  • Coaching sold across trades. Breakthrough Academy, for construction, trades and home-service companies, prints a $5,700 six-week Blueprint, then $999, $1,999 or $2,999 a month on tiers with revenue minimums of $500,000, $1 million and $3 million a year; its home page says the Member Agreement recommends a 12-month minimum and allows leaving with a month’s notice. The Contractor Fight, which names remodelers and GCs among the contractors it coaches, prints a 90-day sales program at $2,400 up front or three payments of $899, and on its home page company coaching at $997 a month for one person or $1,497 for up to four, on a 12-month commitment; its BATTLEGROUND page, for that coaching, says enrollment is closed and opens only a few times a year.

Not every offer has a printed price. Remodelers Advantage’s coaching page lists none, and neither does Construction Consulting’s year of coaching. Where the fee is missing, ask for the total over the full term, in writing, before anything is signed.

A year of remodeling coaching, added up

A monthly price hides the total. The figures below are arithmetic on the printed prices above, not quotes from the providers.

  • Twelve hours of Markup & Profit phone time, one a month: $3,600.
  • Remodelers On The Rise’s VIP Club for twelve months: $5,964, with no term to sit out if it stops being useful.
  • The Contractor Fight’s company coaching for twelve months: $11,964 for one person, or $17,964 for up to four.
  • Remodelers Advantage Roundtables, first year: the $3,950 initiation fee plus twelve months of dues at $1,243 comes to $18,866.
  • Breakthrough Academy, the Blueprint plus twelve monthly fees: $5,700 plus twelve months at $1,999, the tier with a $1 million revenue minimum, is $29,688; on the $2,999 tier, with a $3 million minimum, it is $41,688.

None of that counts the owner’s hours. The VIP Club’s live call runs an hour every Wednesday, about 52 hours a year for an owner who attends each one; The Contractor Fight’s sales program holds two live calls a week for 90 days; Breakthrough Academy’s Blueprint meets three hours a week for six weeks, 18 hours in all. Each of those hours is one not spent walking a job, sitting with a homeowner over selections or getting a change order signed.

Coaching fixes habits; paper leaks need counting

A remodeling coach earns the fee when the problem is a skill or a habit and the owner can name, in dollars, what fixing it would add. Coaching works on people over months: a salesperson who drops the price at the kitchen table, a production meeting nobody runs, an owner who still prices every job alone. It does less for money that stalls in paper — the change agreed on site that nobody prices, an allowance overage nobody bills when the homeowner picks the upgraded tile, a draw requested two weeks after the drywall is hung.

Run the test against gross profit, not revenue. A hypothetical: a company at a 30 percent gross margin that joins a peer group costing $18,866 in its first year needs about $62,900 in added sales, or $18,866 in job costs avoided, just to cover the fee. If the owner cannot point to where that money would come from — which jobs, which line of the job-cost report — the membership is a bet, not a purchase.

Judge it by a number from the company’s own books, not by testimonials. The Federal Trade Commission’s consumer guidance on coaching programs, dated August 2022, warns that success stories might not be true or typical. Pick one figure the coaching should move — gross margin on closed jobs, days from a finished milestone to its draw invoice, change orders billed per job — pull it from the records before the first session, and pull it again at month six.

What moves a quote for a remodeling company

The contract mix moves it first. A company that sells fixed-price kitchens and baths, cost-plus custom work and insurance repairs keeps three kinds of paper — allowances and change orders, cost statements with receipts, adjuster approvals — and a look at all three is a larger job than a look at one. A design-build firm adds a fourth: the design agreement and its fee, which can be won or lost before a construction contract exists.

The state of the records moves it next. A company whose estimates, change-order log, selections, draw invoices and job-cost reports sit in Buildertrend, JobTread or QuickBooks and export in an afternoon is cheaper to read than one whose changes live in text threads and whose selections live in a designer’s notebook, because those records have to be pieced back together before a single change order can be counted. The number of project managers and lead carpenters who approve extras in the field, site visits and travel move it too.

Red flags that are specific to remodeling

The general checklist — scope, exclusions, the total over the full term, the exit — lives in the 10-question guide to choosing an operations consultant, linked at the bottom of this page. A remodeler should add these:

  • A margin or close-rate promise made before anyone has opened a job-cost report or compared an estimate with what the job really cost.
  • A request for homeowners’ financing applications, card numbers, or lockbox and alarm codes. A business review needs none of them.
  • No NDA before the subcontractor list, unit costs and markup sheet change hands; those are what a competitor would pay to see.
  • Coaching tied to switching project-management software. Ask what part of the fee is the software license, and whether the advice still stands if the company keeps its current system.
  • A minimum term that appears only in the member agreement, or a monthly fee with no total over the term written next to it.

Where the Revenue Review fits for a remodeler

The Review is not coaching and prices no jobs: it reads twelve months of the company’s own contracts, change-order log, selections against allowances, draw invoices and job-cost reports, read-only under an NDA, and finishes with a written report that stays with the company, putting a monthly dollar figure on each place money stalls between the signed contract and the final payment wherever the records support one. The full scope, the payment terms and the exclusions sit on The Revenue Review page, linked below.

When to hire no one, and who to call instead

A one-crew remodeler whose owner sells, prices and builds every job has no hand-off to lose yet. The Review is sized for remodelers and general contractors past $1 million a year; below that, expect to hear on the free 20-minute call that the numbers are too small to justify it. A company short of cash this month needs a decision about this week’s payroll, not a membership.

Some problems belong to other professionals. A homeowner who will not make the final payment, the time limit for filing a lien or a contract dispute goes to a construction attorney. Not legal advice. Sales tax on materials, the year-end package and anything a surety asks for go to the CPA. And a company already paying for a peer group or a coaching program should use up what it already pays for before buying more.

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If the cause is clear, it lives inside one process, and one person can own it — take the play from this page and run it. That outcome is fine with us; it is why the play is published in full.
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If the causes are debatable, the problem crosses departments or systems, or the economics are unclear — diagnose before anyone builds. The Revenue Review: $4,500 fixed, two weeks, computed from your own records. Read a sample finding before you decide — free, no email.

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How much does a remodeling business coach cost per month?
Between $497 and $2,999 a month on providers’ own pages read October 27, 2026. Remodelers On The Rise’s VIP Club is $497, month to month; The Contractor Fight lists $997 for one person or $1,497 for up to four on a 12-month commitment; Remodelers Advantage lists Roundtables dues of $1,243 after a $3,950 initiation fee; and Breakthrough Academy charges $999 to $2,999 by revenue tier after a $5,700 Blueprint. Compare the first-year total, not the monthly line.
What does it cost to join a remodelers’ peer group like Roundtables?
About $18,866 for the first year, by arithmetic on Remodelers Advantage’s own store prices read October 27, 2026: a $3,950 initiation fee plus primary-member dues of $1,243 a month. Its Roundtables page describes monthly microboard sessions and bi-monthly calls with the full group. Ask in writing whether the dues change after the first year.
Can a remodeler hire a consultant by the hour?
Yes. Markup & Profit sells one-on-one phone time at $150 for 30 minutes or $300 for an hour, on its page read October 27, 2026, covering subjects such as P&Ls, contracts and estimating. Hourly help suits one bounded question; one hour a month for a year comes to $3,600.
How is the Revenue Review different from a remodeling coach?
A coach works on the owner and the team through months of calls; the Review counts twelve months of the company’s own contracts, change orders and draws once, over two weeks, and ends in a written report. It coaches no one, prices no jobs and sells no software, and any system built after it gets its own written scope and price before work begins.
I’m a homeowner. Does this page price a renovation consultant for my house?
No. Every price here is for help sold to the owner of a remodeling company. A homeowner hiring someone to oversee a renovation — an owner’s representative or a construction consultant — is buying a different service, priced by the people who offer it.

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