Tips & Traps When Building Your Home

by Robert Irwin

Leading real-estate author Robert Irwin provides home builders with valuable money-saving tips to building a home from the ground up in Tips & Traps When Building Your Home . Featuring a self-test to determine whether the reader is more suited to hiring it all out or doing some of it alone, this user-friendly guide outlines the perilous traps that often come with building your own home. Irwin helps readers determine whether or not to hire out the entire process or whether to act as the primary contractor. Once that is decided, Irwin then helps builders

Genres: Construction, Reference

246 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2000

About the author

Robert Irwin’s career in the real estate industry encompasses more than three decades of experience as real estate broker, landlord, and consultant to lenders, agents, and investors. He is the bestselling author of more than 50 books on real estate, including The Armchair Real Estate Investor, Fix It, Stage It, Sell It - Quick!, Buy Your First Home, The For Sale By Owner Kit, McGraw-Hill’s Tips & Traps series, and the latest edition of Buy, Rent, and Sell. A long-time voice of authority, Robert Irwin addresses landlording, investing, and homebuying issues with crystal clarity.

Reviews

[Annette · Rating 4 out of 5]

We're building a house, so we've read more than a dozen books on the topic in the past several months. What we liked about Building Your Home is the format. Each chapter contains questions, answers, tips and traps. The consistent format makes it easy to follow and use. Although it lacks depth in some areas, the book was able to answer many of our basic questions.