How to Plan, Contract, and Build Your Own Home, Fifth Edition: Green Edition (How to Plan, Contract & Build Your Own Home) 5th Edition

This book is great, it covers almost everything about building a house.But it is a little bit outdated, for example for the selecting contractor part. If the author could list a few websites that you can get your contractors that could be fairly helpful. Since nowadays, many contractors bit online for the projects. I guess, this would save a lot of time than asked real estate agents or go to material supplier to ask for contractors.Still, a great book to recommended.PS. I would like to build my own home. And this book give me a lot of confidence.

I was in the planning stages of building a new home from top to bottom. The book help guide me through options that I would never have thought of. Good information. Thumbs up!

I took this book out of the library and liked it so I thought I would purchase a copy. What a great deal -- a hew one for $5 and shipping. I hope to build a custom house in the next two years so I hope this book will give me some excellent information.

I was hope this would be a good basis for lessons. In short it wasn’t. Topics are a lil drawn out at the beginning. Too much thought into deciding what you want without really helping.

This book provides minimal information on how to actually manage a construction project. Very little time is spent on how to search out qualified subcontractors, compare bids, negotiate prices, set a construction schedule, contracts, or spreadsheets. This book is useful if you have no idea how a typical home is built. Save your money, there are better books on Amazon.

Gives you the basic outline of what decisions need to be made.You will have to research your local area to find out what current codes are.

This book should be required reading for anyone planning to build their own home. I read it cover to cover and will use it as a handy reference during construction.

FIrst, it should be noted that the editorial review and back cover both note, "Know when you'll move in with a helpful calendar-style checklist" and "Select the right mortgage". Neither of those are covered, at least not in this 4th edition. I see the number of pages were reduced from 824 pages in the 3rd ed. to 791 in this edition. Part of the mystery may be that the index does have an entry that says, "moving in timeline, 783-803". Well, not only does it NOT have 803 pages, the index is on pages 775 - 791! Finally, the back cover also says "Evaluate doing it yourself vs. subcontracting". This my be presented in a round-about way, but it really goes right into using a builder - never presenting the "do-it-yourself" versus contractor analysis.With that said, the book DOES provide a lot of great information. Every part of the building process seems to be covered. The pros/cons of the various construction methods (such as foundation types, wall construction, etc.) is very useful.The bottom line is this is a very good book that I would recommend for anyone building a home, but just keep in mind things noted in the editorial info, back cover, etc. are missing. I can't believe the editorial staff at McGraw-Hill were so negligent in this matter, and it makes me wonder what other inconsistencies can be found throughout the book.