Building Your Own Home For Dummies – Kevin Daum (KTE0016)

Building Your Own Home For Dummies, Contents:  

Introduction

Part I: Getting Started: The 411 on Custom Home Building

Chapter 1: The Custom Home Process in a Nutshell

Chapter 2: Preparing for the Process

Chapter 3: The Land Grab: Selecting the Perfect Site

Chapter 4: Defining Your House Style

Chapter 5: Architects and Design: Time Spent Is Money Saved

Chapter 6: Engineering and Plan Approval: Bureaucracy Made Somewhat Easy

Part II: All You Need Is Dough: Financing Your Custom Home

Chapter 7: Cash Is King: Using Debt to Your Advantage

Chapter 8: Knowledge Is Power: What You Don’t Know About Construction Loans Can Hurt You

Chapter 9: Qualifying: It’s the Bank’s Way or the Highway

Chapter 10: Show Me the Money

Part III: Hammers and Nails: The Construction Process

Chapter 11: All the King’s Men: The Contractor and His Cohorts

Chapter 12: Excavation and Foundation: Getting a Solid Start

Chapter 13: Framing and Rough: So Much Goes Behind Those Walls!

Chapter 14: Heading for the Finish: So Much Detail

Part IV: All the After Stuff

Chapter 15: Home Sweet Nest Egg: Moving In and Managing Your New Investment

Chapter 16: Refinancing: More Money, Cheaper Payments

Chapter 17: Taking It Outside: The Art of Landscaping

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 18: Ten Common Custom Home Mistakes and How to Avoid ’Em

Chapter 19: Ten Great Ways to Lower Construction Costs

Chapter 20: Ten Common Stuck-in-the-Middle Problems and Their Fixes

Chapter 21: Ten Helpful Custom Home Resources

Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Make Your Home Green

Building Your Own Home For Dummies

Thousands of parts and hundreds of tasks go into a custom home project. This book doesn’t tell you how to install a toilet or hang a door (other For Dummies books cover those topics in detail), but it does tell you everything you need to know about creating a custom home from scratch. Where do you start? Who is responsible for what? How much will it all cost? These questions — and hundreds more — are what this book answers — and all in an easy-to-use reference that you can take with you anywhere.

We divide each chapter into sections, and each section contains information about some part of understanding the process of building a custom home, such as

• A comprehensive approach to financing your home project, before, during, and after construction
• The types of custom homes that are available — from log to timber frame to stick-built to modular
• A view from the loan officer’s side of the desk
• A complete look at the inspection process during construction and what the inspector(s) will be looking for
• Thorough and helpful tidbits on how to successfully build your home and still have money left over

The great thing about this book is that you decide where to start and what to read. It’s a reference you can jump into and out of at will. Just head to the table of contents or the index to find the information you want. Password: T75n1#5&