The Complete Guide to Building Your Own Home and Saving Thousands on Your New House

If you're capable of building your own house, you don't need this book. This book is an awesome way to become aquainted with the fact that you shouldn't be building your own house. Don't get me wrong, I'm handy. I helped my parents build their house, literally from scratch. I picked this up, went into information overload, deftly placed it on the bookshelf, and bought a house that was already built. Done. I plan to lend it out if anyone starts talking crazy.

I am still reading this book in preparation of building our retirement house in a few years, it has been very informative and has several web sites to visit which has provided even more good information. I would recommend this book for anyone considering building a house walk you through every step and is an invaluable tool for the home building process. We have bought two houses but wanted some additional knowledge before se start building.

This book might be useful when you're trying to decide whether to work with a General Contractor or if you can be a builder-owner and do the contracting yourself. After this decision has been made, this book becomes useless. If you've decided to be an owner-builder, you will receive very little benefit from this book. Almost pure text book without visual and graphic elements. Check lists are rudimentary and almost entirely useless. This becomes even more evident after you've read other books on the same topic such as Kent Lesters "Contracting your Home", which is a true hands-on guide. For me as an owner-builder this book didn't provide what I needed.

I’m sure this book is useful to someone, but no one seriously considering building their own house. At one point this book goes over types of heating options and has a paragraph on coal. And it also mentions to just ask a professional for advice about 100 times.

Product was received on time and in great condition. I’m a satisfied customer. MLS

Book id very light. It’s the “systems engineering overview”. Not the book for you if you want to build a solid structure or enclose your patio under roof.

Very personable, easy to understand, and very well organized. I love this book.

Best book i purchased 👌