Build Like a Pro: What Contractors Know - That You Don’t! : Purchasing Building Services & Managing Your Project: Sure Steps to

This is a book designed to guide a homeowner through the challenge and mystery of planning, contracting and building a new home or remodeling an existing home. This book discusses feasibility; planning and zoning; how to choose an architect or a builder; how to bid plans and to understand the bids you receive. It leads the reader through contract documents; payment requests and how and when to pay them; and how to avoid liens; as well as how to deal with insurance, and punchlist and warranty. It is a guide to the process of building, designed to give the reader the tools to manage and control the construction process from beginning to end, written by an experienced builder with over 2,000 completed houses to his credit. The author's experience infuses these pages with an authority found in few other books of this type.

Author Matt Deal has over 40 years and 2,000 houses worth of residential building and contract management experience. With wit and insight, he shares this experience with the reader in a clear and logical manner. His years of experience show through on every page with invaluable information that will save the reader time, money and aggravation.