Homeowners Guide: ADDING ON TO YOUR HOME IN THE INFORMATION AGE: Be your own general contractor whil

Stop being gouged and be your own general contractor while working a full time job! This guide provides the homeowner step-by-step instruction for successfully managing the build of your own addition or remodel. Save 20-40% while producing quality outcomes. This guide is equally useful for those that are interested in flipping homes.

Contains a variety of information such as:

• Trade specific terminology;
• Questions to ask of the various trades;
• Building knowledge;
• Evaluating contractors;
• Negotiation best practices;
• Project management;
• Internet resources to utilize;
• Tools;
• Templates and more.

General contractors attempt to use fear and mysticism in the building process and charge extreme prices for these services. But since it is never broken down into its component parts, you never know the full price. Would you purchase a new car with all the options without knowing how much each option cost? Never!

This guide is to provide homeowners and "flippers" a system for working full time while being the general contractor managing your own home addition or remodel by paying the subcontractors to do the work just like a general contractor.

Why do this?

1. It's not rocket science. People have been building their own homes for thousands of years. The tradesmen are very experienced. There are methods for finding the right ones.
2. Saving 20-40% on an addition or remodel that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars can put tens of thousands dollars in your pocket.
3. Reliable, proven, and trustworthy information is available on the internet and can put you in contact with quality trade contractors to do the work.
4. Better materials and outcomes for a lower cost. No contractor grade anything. Choose everything that you want and purchase your own materials with no markup.
5. You get EXACTLY what you want as you are in control of the details.
6. You have advantages that general contractors do not have. Time. They don't get paid until the entire job is completed.

This step-by-step guide provides you the sequencing you'll need to successfully coordinate the correct contractors at the right time for building your home addition. It is a comprehensive guide focusing on equal parts building trade information, evaluating and selecting the contractors to use, project management, business acumen (negotiating and contracts), internet services and available sites/tools to manage the build and get to the right resources for providing a quality end product for you and your family.

The guide illustrates building principles, questions to ask each respective trade, how to evaluate the trades, how to live in the home while the work is being completed and most importantly how not to interfere with your day job so you can continue to provide for your family.

So let's recap. Better quality materials with a better end product for less money! What are you waiting for?