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Working with Construction Pros: Save Time, Money, and Stress While Building Your Custom Home
Save Time, Money, and Stress While Building Your Custom Home
Your custom home's construction will be a source of stress, anxiety, and delight. Few things matter more than your working relationship with the construction team. If you're prepared and work with them productively, everything becomes easier. If the relationship sours, it can poison the project. This is your guide to understanding what to expect and how to get it right.
This book will help you work with construction pros from a new, more informed perspective. It's a succinct guide to understanding and working productively with construction professionals like general contractors, architects, designers, structural engineers, and tradespeople.Understand what power you have in the relationship and how to wield it effectivelyLearn your role in keeping the project on time and on budgetHow the homeowner mindset leads to successWhy your expectations may not apply and how to adjust themWhy accurate budgeting is so difficult and what to do about itHow to find, evaluate, and hire construction prosHow money (budgets, bids, and bills) flows in custom home constructionHow to handle mistakes, problems, and redosWhy cost overruns occur and how to avoid themLee LeFever is an experienced homeowner, professional educator, and media creator. Over the past 20 years, he and his wife, Sachi, have worked with builders and architects on multiple home construction projects, including a custom home completed in 2021.
Starting then, they set out to solve a problem. Homeowners often begin construction with little experience or knowledge. We learn on the job, make rookie mistakes, and waste money. Lee and Sachi created Build Livable to solve this problem via online courses that are by homeowners, for homeowners. This book is a sample of what's covered in the courses.
Your custom home's construction will be a source of stress, anxiety, and delight. Few things matter more than your working relationship with the construction team. If you're prepared and work with them productively, everything becomes easier. If the relationship sours, it can poison the project. This is your guide to understanding what to expect and how to get it right.
This book will help you work with construction pros from a new, more informed perspective. It's a succinct guide to understanding and working productively with construction professionals like general contractors, architects, designers, structural engineers, and tradespeople.Understand what power you have in the relationship and how to wield it effectivelyLearn your role in keeping the project on time and on budgetHow the homeowner mindset leads to successWhy your expectations may not apply and how to adjust themWhy accurate budgeting is so difficult and what to do about itHow to find, evaluate, and hire construction prosHow money (budgets, bids, and bills) flows in custom home constructionHow to handle mistakes, problems, and redosWhy cost overruns occur and how to avoid themLee LeFever is an experienced homeowner, professional educator, and media creator. Over the past 20 years, he and his wife, Sachi, have worked with builders and architects on multiple home construction projects, including a custom home completed in 2021.
Starting then, they set out to solve a problem. Homeowners often begin construction with little experience or knowledge. We learn on the job, make rookie mistakes, and waste money. Lee and Sachi created Build Livable to solve this problem via online courses that are by homeowners, for homeowners. This book is a sample of what's covered in the courses.
82 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2023
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