Saturday, March 13, 2010

Building Course


Course Includes
Successful Home
Building Training
Program Manual
&
Four CD’s

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Order Today and
we will also include
a free Bonus Disk
with all the Forms and Contracts in
editable format.


This Training Program is Right For You If You …

Decide to build your own house - You will gain the technical knowledge and confidence necessary to be your own contractor – supervising, scheduling, overseeing and effectively coordinating the work of subcontractors. This approach can save you up to 20% of the cost of construction.

Choose construction management - We will show you an approach popular with homeowners, where you can assume greater control and responsibility for decision-making – but hire a professional builder as a consultant or advisor in the process for added assurance. You can still save from 8% to 10% on the building of your house with this approach.

Plan to hire a contractor – This course will help you choose a contractor, negotiate more effectively, better understand the building process for critical decision-making, and avoid costly mistakes. This course will show you how to save up to 5% of the construction costs using this turnkey approach.

This program will also help you realistically evaluate the demands of your lifestyle to determine what approach is right for you.

Step-by-Step Instructions for Successful Homebuilding

Site Selection - We’ll show you how to assess the topography of your land, determine the best orientation to the sun, and deal with architectural control committees, deed restrictions, zoning requirements, easements and local comprehensive plans.

The Permitting Process – We will outline what it takes to acquire a building permit, plus offer a look at building code requirements and necessary inspections.

Construction and Site Financing – Learn how to negotiate the best possible price and terms. Find out how to deal with contracts, closing statements and sales agreements.

Design Considerations – We’ll teach you a proven process of custom home design, showing you how to achieve quality construction, low maintenance and energy efficiency.

Plans and Specifications – This course will help you understand the advantages and disadvantages of mail order plans. You can determine when to use an architect, a designer, or draw the plans yourself. The Successful Home Building Training Program includes an 11-step process designed to customize your plans and ensure against costly change orders and loss of time. Also, we give you sixty-one guidelines for the design of kitchens and baths.

Material Selection and Pricing – A comprehensive review of the various types of construction materials is given along with a discussion of the comparative costs and advantages of each.

Obtaining Bids From Subcontractors – You’ll be able to identify and select subcontractors and materials, obtain competitive bids and effectively enter into contractual agreements. We’ll reveal six proven strategies to generate a list of subcontractors and show you how to check references and analyze past work.

Energy Conservation - Discover how to incorporate state-of-the-art energy conservation technology into your home design. When should you consider solar heating? What can you do to ensure proper ventilation? How can you make sure that you’ve chosen the most energy efficient appliances? We answer these questions and more.

The Construction Sequence and Importance of Scheduling – We teach you what actually happens during the homebuilding process and how you can schedule and organize your job like the pros. From foundations and framing to systems and trim, we break the entire process down step-by-step. Understanding the critical path will allow you to schedule the delivery of materials and organize subcontractors to avoid delays that cost both time and money.

Insurance and Lien Requirements - The Successful Home Building Training Program reviews the types of coverage needed to cover subcontractors and other workers on your job site and explain workers’ compensation and builders’ risk insurance and how to protect yourself in the event of an accident or natural disaster during construction. Also, we give you three proven strategies to ensure a lien will not be filed against your property.

Building Codes - We will help ensure your home meets the construction code requirements for a single-family residence. This is clearly one of the most important aspects of homebuilding, helping you to avoid the cost of having to redo work in order to bring your home into code compliance.

Permanent Financing – We’ll give you a menu of mortgages, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each and determining which are best suited for your financial situation.

Future Sales Potential – You’ll find out how to build to fit the market in order to ensure the highest resale value and how to apply “logical investment criteria” when considering the size and type of home to build.

Course Includes
Successful Home
Building Training
Program Manual
&
Four CD’s


Order Today and
we will also include
a free Bonus Disk
with all the Forms and Contracts in
editable format.

Course Outline | Buy Course

BUILD YOUR OWN HOUSE
Learn To Be Your Own Contractor and Save Thousands of Dollars.


Building Homes Money Savings Plan

Are you looking for detailed instruction to build your own house? With this course you will learn the diy home building process to successfully manage the building of  a well-designed, energy-efficient home and save up to 20%.

The Successful Home Building Training Program includes:

  • 15-chapter, 200-page Successful Home Building Manual.
  • 7 hours of instruction, professionally recorded on 4 CD’s.
  • All of the forms, procedures, schedules, and contracts needed to successfully build your own house.

Developed by a professional contractor, over 10,000 home building manuals have been sold through seminars since 1983. Now this program is being offered for home study and is appropriate for anyone interested in home building, whether doing it yourself or hiring a consultant or professional builder.

Morris Brown's Successful Home Building Course

This course will walk you step-by-step through the entire home building process (click here for a detailed course outline).  Study the manual at home and listen to the CD’s at your convenience.  Learning to build your own house has never been easier!

Included in this course is a 15-chapter manual with over 200 pages of narrative, forms, procedures, documents, and contracts necessary to help you be successful at building your own house.  There is also 7 hours of diy home building instruction recorded on 4 CD’s, walking you through the entire construction process.  This course will help you avoid unnecessary and costly pitfalls while preparing you to build the home of your dreams. It will also prepare new contractors to be organized and profitable from day one.

Since 1983 this course has helped thousands of people and now you too can successfully learn to be your own contractor.  It is also a must have for anyone planning an addition or remodeling project. Order today and be prepared to follow your dream.

To order your Successful Home Building Course plus instructional CD’s for $95 (including shipping)


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Course Outline

Chapter One

  • Review options for building your own house: turn-key, construction management, builder as consultant, and owner-contracting
  • Review 7 greatest pitfalls of custom home building

Chapter Two

  • Determining what you can afford to build
  • Analyzing factors which influence cost per square foot
  • Exercise in evaluating cost per square foot
  • Managing mortgage principle prepayment
  • Understanding 15 and 30 year amortization schedules

Chapter Three

  • Site evaluation and selection
  • 26 site amenities and how they impact the home design and budget
  • Review 17 item pre-purchase site checklist

Chapter Four

  • Purchasing your property
  • 5 financial considerations in purchasing property
  • Preparing the contract for purchase
  • Title insurance

Chapter Five

  • Developing your custom home plans
  • 8 key elements of a complete set of plans
  • An exercise in reading blueprints
  • Review 61 guidelines for the design of kitchens and baths
  • Establishing the description of materials (specifications)
  • Understanding the level of detail needed in custom specifications
  • A recommended process for customizing your house building plans and specifications
  • A system to organize materials, models and color selections

Chapter Six

  • Funding your building project
  • Building your budget
  • Options for obtaining a construction loan
  • A review of lender requirements
  • Review 110 item cost breakdown form
  • Summarizing your cost breakdown
  • Disbursement of construction loans
  • How to create a “45 day” payment cycle for materials purchased
  • Obtaining discounts for prompt payment of materials
  • Managing finances for the home built “out of pocket”

Chapter Seven

  • Securing proper insurance protection for your property, workers and completed operations
  • Workers’ compensation insurance, liability coverage
  • Builders’ risk insurance
  • Confirming adequate insurance coverage of construction personnel
  • Understanding the mechanics lien law
  • Procedures and forms for waiver, claim, and release of liens
  • How to avoid a lien being filed against your property
  • Reviewing pay request and waiver of lien procedures

Chapter Eight

  • Managing construction inspections for quality control and code compliance
  • Obtaining a building permit
  • 44 item permitting and inspection checklist
  • Review of 24 construction inspections and their sequence
  • Review sample energy calculations

Chapter Nine

  • Understanding the intricacies of various construction options
  • 7 considerations to determine the appropriate construction method
  • Turn-key construction, conventional method
  • Principles of construction management
  • Contracting your own home
  • Executing the “right” contract
  • Construction bidding process
  • Review 3 unique construction contracts
  • Understanding and managing common allowances
  • How change orders are structured
  • Cost-plus construction (percentage or fixed fee)
  • Identifying, selecting and hiring subcontractors
  • Developing good subcontractor proposals, reviewing sample contracts
  • Review sample payment schedules
  • Maintaining control through the use of retainages
  • 4 contract options with subcontractors
  • System for maintaining tight control over your costs
  • An exercise for comparing subcontractors’ bids

Chapter Ten

  • Estimating material and labor costs
  • 48 formulas for estimating materials
  • 13 guidelines for developing the dimension take off
  • Material quantity estimating
  • Guidelines for developing the dimension takeoff
  • Material quantity estimating
  • Guidelines for estimating foundation, framing, roofing, brick, sheetrock, trim, flooring and other areas of the home
  • Procedures for organizing count items
  • Determining when you or your subcontractors should purchase supply materials
  • Subcontractors bid calculations
  • Understanding how 25 subcontractors bid their labor and materials
  • An exercise for understanding construction pricing terminology

Chapter Eleven

  • 7 final preliminaries before construction begins
  • A review of detailed construction procedures
  • 200-item review of the sequence of events with construction procedures and timelines
  • Avoiding the most common scheduling snafus

Chapter Twelve

  • 8 Factors affecting the appropriate foundation for your home
  • Understanding 6 types of foundation designs
  • Role of the foundation subcontractor
  • Applying 4 technical points to ensure foundation accuracy
  • Exercise in squaring, shooting grades and estimating concrete
  • Review 20-item foundation checklist

Chapter Thirteen

  • Drying in the house
  • Defining the role of the framing subcontractor
  • Developing labor and material bids
  • 5 factors to consider when choosing your major material supplier
  • Review 35-item checklist to be performed prior to hanging sheetrock
  • Techniques to insure proper credit on materials returned

Chapter Fourteen

  • Review 144 specification options available for your custom home including: plumbing, Heating & Air conditioning, electrical, exterior doors, roofing, wall & ceiling finishes, ceramic tile, cabinets & countertops, interior trim, painting & staining, garage doors, kitchen appliances, bath accessories, exterior finishes, and more

Chapter Fifteen

  • Establishing residency
  • Obtaining the Certificate of Occupancy
  • Lender and building department requirements for occupancy
  • Closing your construction loan and final disbursements

To order your Successful Home Building Course plus instructional CD’s for $95 (including shipping)

Have a question about our
Successful Home Building Course?
Email owner.builder(at)yahoo(dot)com

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