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

Folds, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878336532 ISBN 13: 9780878336531

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing, 1990

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Roy Hoopes is the author of the standard biographies of James M. Cain and Ralph Ingersoll. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

From Library Journal:

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.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0878336532
• ISBN 13: 9780878336531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232