Building Your Own Home For Dummies (Google eBook)

Kevin Daum, Janice Brewster, Peter Economy

John Wiley & Sons, Mar 4, 2011 - House & Home - 384 pages

Keep construction on track with helpful checklists

Turn your dream of a custom home into reality!

Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely -- and staying sane during the process!

Discover how to:
* Find the best homesite
* Navigate the plan approval process
* Obtain financing
* Hire the right contractor
* Cut design and construction costs
* Avoid common mistakes

What people are saying

Review: Building Your Own Home for Dummies

User Review  - Kierstin Butler - Goodreads

Great reference book... Couldn't read it front to back. But helpful.

Review: Building Your Own Home for Dummies

User Review  - Colin Price - Goodreads

Focused a bit more on conventional custom home building than I was looking for, but certainly has a broad range of useful suggestions. Some of the fiscal advice though may be a bit suspect given some ...

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• on Custom Home Building: 7
• Preparing for the Process: 23
• The Land Grab Selecting the Perfect Site: 41
• Defining Your House Style: 63
• Architects and Design Time Spent Is Money Saved: 83
• Engineering and Plan Approval: 109
• All You Need Is Dough: 123
• Knowledge Is Power What You Dont Know: 139
• Letting the Lender Carry Your Burden: 158
• Qualifying Its the Banks Way or the Highway: 161
• Show Me the Money: 185
• Hammers and Nails: 201
• Excavation and Foundation Getting a Solid Start: 217
• Framing and Rough So Much Goes Behind Those Walls: 231
• Heading for the Finish So Much Detail: 251
• All the After Stuff: 275
• Refinancing More Money Cheaper Payments: 287
• Taking It Outside The Art of Landscaping: 301
• Putting Your Plan in Action Hardscaping: 309
• The Part of Tens: 317
• Ten Great Ways to Lower Construction Costs: 325
• Ten Common StuckintheMiddle Problems and Their Fixes: 331
• Ten Helpful Custom Home Resources: 337
• Ten Ways to Make Your Home Green: 343
• Index: 349

About the author

Kevin Daum has 22 years of experience in the real estate and mortgage industry. He is founder and CEO of Stratford Financial Services, and is the leading expert in custom home financing. Daum has financed more than 800 custom homes and has published numerous articles on construction financing,mortgage education, and entrepreneurship.

Janice Brewster served as editor of Log Home Living magazine for five years.  Brewster has been involved in the custom home industry for more than 10 years.

Peter Economy is Associate Editor for the Drucker Foundation's award-winning magazine Leader to Leader and a featured expert for AllBusiness.com. He's the coauthor of the books Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless Orchestra, Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit, and many others, including Consulting For Dummies, Home-Based Business For Dummies, and Raising Capital For Dummies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Building Your Own Home For Dummies
• Authors: Kevin Daum, Janice Brewster, Peter Economy
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1118054067, 9781118054062
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: House & Home / House Plans