If owning a home is the American Dream, then building a home is the American Nightmare. This book covers everything buyers and builders need to know about saving costs, time, materials, and their sanity. Readers will learn about bargains, smart solutions to finding the lowest mortgage rates, how to screen builders, and more. This new edition includes a detachable checklist of key questions to ask builders, architects and inspectors. 30 illustrations.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Denise Fields and Alan Fields write a monthly column for Baby Talk magazine. They have written several best-selling books, including Baby Bargains and Bridal Bargains. They live in Boulder, CO.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great resource for anyone thinking about building a home,
By A Customer
This review is from: Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home (2nd ed) (Paperback)
This book was a great resource while my husband and I were building our home. Our relationship with our builder was great, and it was mostly because the builder was impressed with how much we "knew" about building! Really, we were just asking the questions that Denise and Alan Fields said to ask in this book. The "things to watch out for" and potential money pit warnings were just what we needed to go into our house building a little less scared and a LOT more knowledgeable. We bought this book as we were starting the design process, and wished we had bought it sooner! A must have!
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book made me a better builder!,
By
This review is from: Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home (2nd ed) (Paperback)
As a builder/designer in Cincinnati, Ohio, I have learned to appreciate an educated buyer. This book is an excellent reference for anyone building a new home. Share it with your builder, and enjoy your new home building experience instead of dreading it.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Voracious information hound,
By lobue@laughlin.net (Bullhead City, Arizona) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home (2nd ed) (Paperback)
I have looked at several books and found a very comprehensive overview of EXACTLY what I was looking for. An insiders book that gave me a lot of important information to arm myself with. Thanks for doing your homework, Alan and Denise!
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
