Everything You Need to Know About Building the Custom Home: How to Be Your Own General Contractor

by John Folds

Overview

This book helps the reader save a great deal of money by demonstrating how to manage the project and act as one's own contractor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878336531
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/1990
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	671,422
Product dimensions:	7.05(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.58(d)

Editorial Reviews

The focus of this book is on the legal and financial nuts and bolts of homebuilding such as securing a loan, negotiating with bankers and tradespeople, reviewing contracts, and gauging insurance needs. In these areas, this guide is detailed to a fault, listing--in one instance--the 50 possible title defects against which title insurance provides protection. Briefer coverage is afforded the construction process, although the book does provide a useful review and checklist of the stages of construction. Absent is any description of the actual work involved at each stage or tips on evaluating such work. While this is a worthy addition to larger building or real estate collections, smaller libraries may want something more inclusive like Dave McGuerty and Kent Lester's The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home ( LJ 9/1/86).-- Bill Demo, Tompkins Cortland Community Coll., Dryden, N.Y.

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