Owner Builders make up 15% of all the new homes build across the country every year.

Building your own home, whether you are doing it all yourself or you are by passing the General Contractor and hiring your own subs, will save you $50k+.  It's a great accomplishment and it should be.  After all, you are building a space where memories will be created and life for years. 

We have combed the national bookstores and online retailers looking at all the 'How To' books for building your own home.  Not ONE talks about bidding and contracting the job.  This is the meat and potatoes.  Bad accepted bid, budget is blown.  Didn't contract a sub and he doesn't show up?   There goes your schedule which could affect your bank loan which also means more time.  Are you just handing the sub a check?  Sure hope not.  And what about the design changes that happen on the job - how are you going to manage them?  They are going to happen.  Has happened on every house we've ever built.

In construction, time is money and money is time

You can absolutely build your own house.  The best way to go about it is to hire subcontractors for the big jobs.  If you want to paint the interiors, for example, get your family to help.   And be careful about the siblings, cousins, uncles and nephews who come out of the wood work to help - saying they'll give you a good deal.  Or the "I know someone".  These are all good intentions, but because they are giving you a 'good deal', 9 out of 10 times, your job will not be their priority, yes, costing you time and eventually money.

We are a group of construction employees who have worked for all the major national builders...

• Lennar
• John Laing Homes
• Laing Luxury
• Kaufman and Broad
• Richmond American
• Pulte

We've worked for the high end 'boutique' builders...

• Brookfiled Homes
• Taylor Woodrow
• Laing Luxury
• Christopher Homes  

Plus another gentleman who has built custom legacy homes for most of his career.

Do you know what to look for in your architect's plans?  Are you hiring your subs or are they hiring you?  How do you qualify bids?   What do you do when a sub doesn't show up on the job?  Whos is paying for repairs on the job?  Do you know how to schedule?  

Let us send you our free "7 Giant Costly Mistakes Owner Builders Make".

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We also have a downloadable EBook complete with forms (contract, scopes of work, lien releases, schedule, start notices, etc) which guides you through bidding, contracting, managing design changes and scheduling.  Get more information and see our Table of Contents here.

If you are getting ready to build in the near future and would like to attend our 1 Day Seminars with this training, please let us know and we'll see if we will be in your area or close by.  There is nothing like this done in the country.  Click here for more information.

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