Tips & Traps When Building Your Home 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   Tips and Traps for New Home Owners The latest in the hugely popular Tips and Traps series, Tips and Traps for New Home Owners contains all the information you need to move in, financially operate, and successfully maintain your first home. From financial record keeping and obtaining insurance to surviving the move-in and ensuring home value, real estate expert Robert Irwin provides practical, real-world advice that: * Shows ways to maximize investment expenditures, including minimizing taxes, timing refinancing, and more * Outlines ways to avoid home ownership pratfalls, from a thorough premove checklist to an annual maintenance schedule * Offers expert guidance in home improvement and modernizing for every part of the house * Explains how to evaluate a home's current value and future price   Buy Your Home Smarter with Feng Shui Lenny Jones, CRS “Mr. Real Estate” of San Luis Obispo County ~ Broker/Owner, Jones, Goodell & Fellows Real Estate "This book is loaded with great information to help me find the perfect property for my buyers!"   Build It Right! What to Look for in Your New Home When you remodel or build a house, you have what can seem like a million options. Knobs, handles, or finger grooves in the kitchen cabinets? Self-rimming sink or drop-in? Top vent fireplace or direct vent? Often you're at the mercy of a contractor whose eye is on getting a bigger cut of the eventual cost, so you can end up with the most expensive--and not necessarily the best--choice. Myron Ferguson diagrams and describes the options efficiently and helpfully, and straightforwardly states when and why a certain choice is best. This simple, pragmatic guide will be worth its weight in gold to the first-time remodeler and builder.   The Don't Sweat Guide to Your New Home: Settling In and Getting the Most from Where You Live here are millions of details to oversee when getting settled into a new house or apartment. This book reveals ways to prevent stress and move in with ease.   The Well-Built House This is the essential book for anyone who is considering building or buying a new house or remodeling an old one--an insider's guide to construction, written by a professional contractor. Many readers will remember Jim Locke as the contractor in Tracy Kidder's bestselling book HOUSE, in which he epitomized the values of the true craftsman.

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