Building your Own Home for Dummies by Kevin Daum (PDF)

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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

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap 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 homesiteNavigate the plan approval processObtain financingHire the right contractorCut design and construction costsAvoid common mistakes From the Back Cover 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 homesiteNavigate the plan approval processObtain financingHire the right contractorCut design and construction costsAvoid common mistakes 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. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Buyer beware: this book was written in 2005. Which if you’re old like me wasn’t long ago, or so I thought. The book refrences two banks that collapsed in 2008 refering to them as good banks because of their easy approval process; probably why they collapsed. It also recommends buying a PDA to help keep track of your project’s timeline, and provides very detailed steps on how to use Google to search for images and websites. However, apart from the trip down memory lane there are some useful tidbits to keep in mind. I wouldn’t say it’s not worth the $12, but if you’re looking for banking advice this book will not be overally helpful due to changes made by banks since the housing bubble in 2008.

⭐As with all “Dummies” and “Idiots” books, the table of contents is absolutely useless. Every chapter title and section heading in this genre has to be a bad pun, according to some unwritten law. If you need to find a topic, skip straight to the index in the back.I did not appreciate the authors’ attitude and advice that your house is a money generating ATM and that you SHOULD cash out your equity and put it to better use someplace else. Foolish you!, they say, if you should ever pay off your mortgage and own your home free and clear. Perpetual debt is they way to generate wealth, they say. Funny, I thought this book was supposed to lay out the process for building my own home.

⭐If you want to know who to contact & how to ask the bank for $, this book is for you. It literally recommends all the different professionals that you need to have involved and does not have much of anything to do with you doing anything yourself besides contacting these people and forking out money.

⭐I’m a middle aged female that grew up in a household of male construction workers. Going into this book I understood the construction process of who does what, why they do it, and whose responsible for doing it… However, I had no clue as to how to execute the process or how to go about looking the banker in the eyes and being confident that I’m asking the right questions. I found this book to extremely helpful for my needs. After reading this book, making a bullet list of questions, I left the bank being able to contract my own modest home without having to hire someone to contract it for me.I did not give the book the full 5 star rating because I feel if you’re green to the construction business, you’d need another book that would go into details about how to do the construction itself.

⭐I think that this should be called “Being your own General Contractor for Dummies.” Doesn’t actually have any how-to on building (foundations, insulation etc.) but has good information on being your own GC.

⭐Don’t waste your money. Completely unhelpful.

⭐Mostly about financing your home. Not a lot of information about managing your build.

⭐Great book, very detailed and in depth! I’m about 3-4 years out from building a new home on a lot. This book has given me valuable insight into the planning stages and potential pitfalls! A must for anyone looking to build a home!!

⭐Useful reference document

⭐A great simplification of a complex process. I love the checklists for the building phase and the general co tent

⭐Good read if your going to build a home

⭐the copy I received was printed in 2005 , before the financial meltdown of 08 / 09. of the financial options.. I wonder if some of the financial options / suggestions would still be the same in a latter publications.I wouldn’t think so.

⭐informative

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