Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home

If owning a home is the American Dream, then building a home is the American Nightmare. This book covers everything buyers and builders need to know about saving costs, time, materials, and their sanity. Readers will learn about bargains, smart solutions to finding the lowest mortgage rates, how to screen builders, and more. This new edition includes a detachable checklist of key questions to ask builders, architects and inspectors. 30 illustrations.