(The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home) [By: Lester, Kent] [Feb, 2010]

by Kent Lester

Whether you want to take all the responsibility to contract your home or simply want to intelligently communicate with your homebuilder, "The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home" can save you up to 30 percent or more on the cost of home construction by teaching you the practical day-to-day details of managing a construction project.

Genres: Construction, Finance, Architecture

Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Author of the latest sequel in the Dan Clifford series, The Third Instinct, published by Macmillan-Forge.

Author of the recent Dan Clifford thriller, The Seventh Sun, published by Macmillan-Forge.

Current non-fiction author of The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home, 5th edition, with over 350,000 copies in print.

Reviews

[Jessica Jacobs-tuttle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has a lot of great information and detail. Unfortunately, it needs a good editor to clean it up. There were full pages repeated in the text and a lot of distracting mechanical errors throughout. I'm not even a grammar snob and have my fair share of flubs. If it stood-out to me then it was bad :).

[Jordan Stoeger · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have to echo other posters and point out that while the information in this book is good, great even, the delivery is far sub par. Sections of text are repeated in multiple places -- how did that get past the editor?!

[Joseph Roach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really informative book for owner-builders.

[Kent Lester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best version of this book ever. In full color with an additional 120 pages of detail added.

[Nick Woodall · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book and built two homes and an office. Superb source, especially the checklists and forms.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this book. Very helpful to hiring contractors.