By heeding the advice in this well-documented book, consumers can avoid the common pitfalls home buyers often face. With a new home costing an average of $200,000 or more, mistakes can be costly. This new edition includes updated prices and tips for using the Internet to learn about saving on mortgages, research the best deals on building products, and find sites for product manufacturers and sources.
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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.
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59 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
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An informed consumer's best resource,
By A Customer
This review is from: Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home (Paperback)
I am an architect and a former building inspector. Over the past few years I have given copies of this book to friends and relatives as they embark on their homebuilding adventure. This book says it like it is and it does not gloss over or romanticize the home building process. (Yes, its the American Dream, your castle - but is it built on a swamp or will it blow down in the first wind storm? It is also probably your most valuable asset. So how do you keep the dream from becoming a nightmare? Read this book!) You will learn who all the key parties are, their interests and biases. You learn how to keep control of the project (hey, its your money!) The humor keeps you reading (and functions as comic relief on those subjects that would drive an uniformed consumer to tears or suicide). The authors have lived the nightmare and allow the reader to learn from their mistakes. This book is a minor investment realtive to the cost of a new house - you owe it to yourself to buy it and read it before you ever visit a model home, hire an architect, or sit down with a home builder!
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Your New House,
By A Customer
This review is from: Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home (Paperback)
This book contains a lot of worthwhile detailed information for anyone who is thinking of building a custom, semi-custom or production home. I do feel that the authors are somewhat biased toward homes in the $200,000. and up price range. The book will initally open your eyes to EVERYTHING that might go wrong. It is important to realize that many of these things may not occur. If you take everything in this book at face value, you probably would never build a home!
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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New Home Builders Read This,
By Steve Kurtz (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home (Paperback)
I am a researcher by nature and looked high and low for what ending up being this book. It is, by far, the best to be found anywhere. Armed with the hints and checklists this book provides gives you confidence in a very intimidating process. You'll read things that point out areas you never would have considered...but are extremly important.
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