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Tips & Traps When Building Your Home




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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 690.837
EAN: 9780071356862
ISBN: 007135686X
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 246
Publication Date: August 28, 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Sales Rank: 241221
Studio: McGraw-Hill




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Product Description:
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. 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




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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Book on building
This was quite a nice little book for anyone thinking of building your own home. Haven't done it yet, but got some good tips from the book.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A must buy for people want to build their own home
This is not the book to teach you all details of how to actually construct your home, but it's extremely useful to help you understand the process and get things ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Light on detail but useful - a good companion book
If you are looking for a really thorough book, this isn't it, but many of the tips are very helpful. Read it with a highlighter and just mark the good stuff and then ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Tips and Traps When Building Your Home
If you're new to building homes, this is a good book to get you started.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Very Good
This is a very good book that is easy to read. Now, there were some things that I disagree with, as well as other "expert" developers, but overall the tips and traps ... Read More



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