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Housebirth: Your Guide to Buying an Energy-Efficient, Healthy New Home that Pays You Back
 
 
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Housebirth: Your Guide to Buying an Energy-Efficient, Healthy New Home that Pays You Back [Spiral-bound]

Sara Lamia (Author)


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Book Description

March 15, 2007
Housebirth is a guidebook for buyers of custom, semi-custom, or production built homes. It gives suggestions for selecting a builder and floor plans that work best for you, and contains checklists and worksheets to help keep track of information and make timely decisions. It also has detailed descriptions of home products and features that deliver the benefits of energy efficiency, a healthy indoor environment, durability, and easy maintenance.

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"Good builders always benefit when consumers demand a quality product and when their clients know how to properly partner with them to define and identify what that means when having a home built. This is never truer than with High Performance Homes." --Don Ferrier, CEO/president of Ferrier Builders, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas

About the Author

Sara Lamia, president of Home Building Coach, Inc. in Fort Collins, Colorado, draws on her firsthand experience to help consumers get the home they really want. She is a contributing editor of Green Builder Magazine and hosts a local radio talk show. Sara delivers seminars nationally to builders and REALTORS about how to market the high performance home. She is a member of the National Association of Home Builders, and has an M.A. in education.

Product Details

  • Spiral-bound: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Home Building Coach, Inc. (March 15, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0972339027
  • ISBN-13: 978-0972339025
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,275,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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