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Tips & Traps When Building Your Home

Learn these valuable Tips & Traps When Building Your Home

Item #: 9780071356862
ISBN: 007135686X
ISBN13: 978-0-07-135686-2
Author: Robert Irwin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Format: Paperback

Leading real estate author Robert Irwin provides home builders with valuable money-saving tips to building a home from the ground up in Tips & Traps When Building Your Home. Featuring a self-test to determine whether the reader is more suited to hiring it all out or doing some of it alone, this user-friendly guide outlines the perilous traps that often come with building your own home. Irwin helps readers determine whether or not to hire out the entire process or whether to act as the primary contractor. 246 pp.

Once that is decided, Irwin then helps builders determine:

How building and contracting effects home-owners' insurance
Whether or not to hire an architect
If building plans need to be presented to the local zoning board
Contractors' and builders' adherence to electrical codes, sewage codes, and occupancy codes

Tips & Traps When Building Your Home - Table of Contents:

Why Build It Yourself?
Designing Your Home
Building an Energy-Efficient Home
Finding the Land
Is the Lot Buildable?
Hiring a Contractor
Be Your Own Contractor
Getting the Plans and Permissions
Getting Accurate Bids
Cost-Cutting Ideas
Getting Financing
Construction
Sitting the House and Preparing the Lot
Building a Strong Foundation
Framing and Sheathing
Roofing
Electrical and Plumbing
Drywall and Trim
Finishing Off the Kitchen
Finishing the Bathroom
The Aftermath
The Tax Man Cometh
Deciding When and If to Sell

Tips & Traps When Building Your Home

Learn these valuable Tips & Traps When Building Your Home

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