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    Guide to New Custom Home Ownership: The Book Every Homeowner Should Read Before Building Their New Home
    Guide to New Custom Home Ownership: The Book Every Homeowner Should Read Before Building Their New Home
    Guide to New Custom Home Ownership: The Book Every Homeowner Should Read Before Building Their New Home
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    Guide to New Custom Home Ownership: The Book Every Homeowner Should Read Before Building Their New Home

    By Wesley C. Brooks

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    Guide to New Custom Home Ownership is a complete and insightful publication on residential construction. designed for the person wishing to own a new custom home. It walks the reader through the process of finding how to decide on custom plans, finding your builder as well as property. It helps the reader understand zoning boards and financing the project. This book helps prevent problems and issues with your builder as well as tradesmen and shows you how to keep your project site safe from injuries while also maintaining the quality and design choices you have in mind for your new dream home. This book is not only for people wishing to be a new homeowner. Real estate agents, material supply reps, sub-contractors and fellow builders will all walk away with a new understanding toward custom residential homes. This book makes for a great gift for anyone considering a new home anywhere and/or anytime in the future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 30, 2005
    ISBN9781463489892
    Guide to New Custom Home Ownership: The Book Every Homeowner Should Read Before Building Their New Home
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    Wesley C. Brooks

    Author, Wes Brooks is a third generation Realtor and a fifth generation custom home builder and private pilot. As owner of New Style Construction (Retired) and licensed Realtor with a Large International Real Estate Corporate Firm, Wes has dedicated his life to working inside the housing industry for more than 35 years. The love and passion of working with buyers (as well as sellers and new custom home clients) has brought Wes the success and recognition by serving on the Michigan Business Advisory Committee in 2002 and being named Michigan’s Business Man of the Year by a Congressional Committee of Congress in Washington D.C. in 2003 and 2004. Sharing combined knowledge of the construction and real estate world with his clients, Wes Brooks publishes books and other literature to assist each of his clients to a better understanding of the process. The intent of each publication is to create a combined collection of information that can take the guess work, confusion and stress out of each project of the reader. “I have always believed that an educated client makes for the best client.”

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      Guide to New Custom Home Ownership - Wesley C. Brooks

      © 2005 Wesley C. Brooks. All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 03/25/05

      ISBN: 1-4208-3943-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-8989-2 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Bloomington, Indiana

      Photography Credits by:

      Interior Pages - Wesley C. Brooks

      Cover by: Therma-Tru Door Company

      To Obtain Additional Copies of this Publication:

      Contact:

      AuthorHouse

      1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200

      Bloomington, Indiana 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      T 888-519-5121

      or

      NewStyleCo@aol.com

      Contents

      Introduction

      Solving the Mysteries Within the Walls

      Chapter 1

      So You Want to Build a New Home?

      Chapter 2

      Finding Where to Build

      Chapter 3

      Getting your Ideas on Paper

      Chapter 4

      Who to Hire

      Chapter 5

      Zoning and Variances

      Chapter 6

      Permits

      Chapter 7

      Home Owners Association’s

      Chapter 8

      Building a Contract

      Chapter 9

      Changing the Project During the Bid

      Chapter 10

      Financing the Project

      Chapter 11

      Liens and Title Companies

      Chapter 12

      Selections and Decisions

      Chapter 13

      Relationships

      Chapter 14

      Safety Concerns

      Chapter 15

      Client Damages to Project

      Chapter 16

      Builder Damages to Project

      Chapter 17

      Outside Sources of Damage to Project

      Chapter 18

      Restock Fees for Special Orders

      Chapter 19

      Quality Control Issues

      Chapter 20

      Client/s Wanting to Help

      Chapter 21

      Change Orders and Delays

      Chapter 22

      Seasonal Delays

      Chapter 23

      Addendum’s

      Chapter 24

      Plant Life

      Chapter 25

      Driveways and Landscaping

      Chapter 26

      Sign of the Times

      Chapter 27

      Extra Material on the Job

      Chapter 28

      Warranties

      Chapter 29

      In Conclusion

      Chapter 30

      About the Author

      Chapter 31

      Special Note from the Author

      Chapter 32

      Dedication

      Special Notes

      Guide to New Custom Home Ownership

      The Publication to Improve Client

      Understanding of New Home Construction

      Introduction

      Solving the Mysteries Within the Walls

      This book has been compiled in hopes of making the process of new home construction more understandable and enjoyable to the average new homeowner. It will walk you through the process of the average and custom project. Many areas of construction are mysteries to most people. This book de-mystifies the process and shows how a Builder or the General Contractor handles permits as well as coordinates inspections by the governing bodies. The General Contracting Builder also contracts the laborers and suppliers, deals directly with Title Companies and Banks, handles scheduling and spends many hours on the road, in the office and on-site, while trying to protect the client along with everyone else involved, from unexpected situations. This book enlightens the reader with much of the hidden information that every new homeowner should know prior starting his or her new home project.

      Chapter 1

      So You Want to Build a New Home?

      The all American Dream consists of many small ideals that can make up the bigger picture and fall within ones life. School, college, career, marriage, children and … of course, the house with the picket fence. Knowing everyone has to have a place to set there shoes at the end of the day, having a home can be an apartment, condominium or house. Decision’s to either rent or own, change for many, as the year’s progress. In generations past, a person’s background or home as a child often used to carry through their adult years and their adult homes were often quite similar to that of their youth.

      Today’s generation with new - more complex and modern lifestyles as well as homes, many are finding a need or desire to have a custom home built. People are looking for a home that reflects their own personality. To create an environment that utilizes their space as well as their eye. Roadside or curb appeal seems to be more dominant than in days past. The process of home building is becoming more complicated and complex. Designs are changing, materials are becoming more advanced and techniques in construction are becoming more specialized.

      In years past, a builder was the person who, not only contracted the project with the client ( normally over a hand shake and a cup of coffee ) but also dug the ditch, poured the concrete, framed the house and applied the shingles. The builder of yesteryear came to

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