Home Building Simplified is your "users manual" for having a custom home built.It takes you step by step from choosing and successfully working with a contractor, through dealing with banks and bureaucrats and making the choices that will make your home truly your own.
Written by a retired custom home builder, Home Building Simplified gives insight into the steps that must be taken - and the order in which they must be taken.
It will help you understand the decisions you need to make before your contractor can give you a firm bid - and what you'll need to finalize long before your bank will grant a building loan.
The book is also filled with "watch out for" warnings that will keep you out of trouble both financially and emotionally.
If you've been thinking of acting as your own General Contractor, you'll gain insight into what that really means. You'll learn how to choose subcontractors and how their work must be scheduled in order for your project to move forward. You'll also learn something about what MUST be included in their contracts if you want your home built on time and to your specifications.
In short - at $17, Home Building Simplified can easily save you 1,000 times its cost.
