Home Owners Journal: Everything About Your Home (Spiral-bound) The Home Owner's Journal provides convenient pocket folders to organize and keep a record of everything in the home. It's the ideal storage for sketches and photographs, documenting new features, and keeping track of older ones. The journal organizes: * Basic Information * Electrical Information * Heat * Plumbing * Exterior * Construction * Extras * Trades The journal's wiro-binding provides considerable expansion and allows the book to lay flat at any page. The Home Owner's Journal is an essential tool for any homeowner.   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   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.   How To Manage The Design & Construction Of Your Own Home... Or Anything Else! This book will save the owner of a new house at least 1,000 time its cost (50% of normal costs) and 25% of facility costs for a multimillion dollar plant or other facility, as compared with conventional methods.   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 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make (and How to Avoid Them) Written especially for first-timers, this eye-opening guide turns you into an educated consumer, ensuring that the home or condo you buy is both a comfortable place to live and a great investment for the future. Compiled from the experience of hundreds of homebuyers, real estate agents, home builders, and mortgage lenders, it shows you the most common mistakes buyers make and illustrates them in practice so you don't fall into the same traps. If you're thinking about buying a home, don't make these mistakes: * Researching selling prices and still overpaying * Believing everything your agent tells you * Buying into an upscale neighborhood that's moving downscale * Underestimating utilities and other costs * Allowing your agent to negotiate for you * Letting fear get the better of you and not buying at all

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