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Owner Builders: 43 Interview Questions You Need to Ask When Choosing the Right Sub-Contractors
Owner builders oversee the construction of their new homes, cutting out the costs of a general contractor. To do this, though, owner builders need to hire and manage their own sub-contractors.
Choosing the right sub-contractors will make the difference between a successful owner builder construction project and a financial disaster.
Owner builders need to ask these [...]
Owner Builder Lessons for the Project Management Industry
Owner builder residential construction projects offer a terrific point of comparison from which businesses can learn volumes about effective (or ineffective) project management strategies and techniques.
Owner builders are individuals who wish to save a lot of money by eliminating the costs of hiring a general contractor. Therefore, owner builders manage the construction of their own [...]
A Lesson in Time for Owner Builder Loans
Owner builders save themselves a lot of money by managing the construction of their homes and cutting out the costs of a general contractor. However, for owner builders who have never built before, there is a very important lesson to learn about the owner builder loan timeline before getting too far into the planning process.
Owner [...]
Long Web Forms Online: A Marketing Lesson from Owner Builder Construction Loans
Owner builder construction loans are hard to sell, because it is difficult to generate leads. There is no established list of interested owner builders to whom you can send out direct mailings.
Therefore, owner builders have to find you. This is where having an online presence is vital, but you need more than the [...]
The Truth About Owner Builder Construction Budgeting
Are you considering being an owner builder? Do you want to manage your own construction project to save anywhere from 15% to 35% in costs? If so, then you will need owner builder financing, which will always require an itemized budget of your projected construction costs.
The owner builder construction budgeting process is filled with potentially [...]
Owner Builder Construction Loans: The Secret to Hiring Good Sub-Contractors
Owner builder construction loans provide financing for people who want to eliminate the costs of hiring a licensed builder for the construction of their new home. In other words, owner builders will act as their own general contractors, managing the sub-contractors themselves.
Hiring only reputable sub-contractors with a good track record will save you [...]
Home Improvements, Family Improvements: The Owner Builder Way
Are you considering making some improvements to your home? A newly improved home means an upgraded environment for your family.
Depending on the size and scope of the project, you may want to be an owner builder, overseeing the process yourself and managing the sub-contractors yourself without hiring a general contractor.
This process is known [...]
Building Permits: What Every Owner Builder Needs to Know Immediately
Almost every county, township, or municipality has a local department that is dedicated to reviewing residential house plans and issuing permits to build. If you are hiring a licensed general contractor to build your home, the GC should be intimately familiar with the local building codes and procedures for permits.
But, if you are going to [...]
The Smart Way to Use Joint Venture Marketing in an Online World
In today’s world, every marketer knows that a joint venture is simply two companies working together to create mutually beneficial results. Your company will do something to advertize the products/ services of another company. In exchange, that company will return the favor. Simple.
But, will joint venture marketing work for online marketing? Can you use [...]
The Secret Costs of Choosing Blueprints for Your New Home
When building a new home, whether hiring a builder or acting as an owner builder, one of your first decisions involves your home plans. Your options for blueprint sources have exploded in the last few years as online sites are becoming more prevalent.
The choice of whether to buy stock blueprints from an online source [...]
Four Email Marketing Tips: Turn Your Tire Kickers Into Eager Buyers
Whether you’re selling owner builder construction loans, collectible stamps, or a lawn care service, you can generate very large numbers of prospects through email marketing. But, you have to do it correctly. Even though you are marketing through email, you still need to build a relationship with your prospect in order to get the sale.
Build [...]
How Owner Builders Should Find Land to Build On – The Right Way
Are you considering building a new home? If so, you’ll need to find the right piece of land. But, you probably don’t buy land every day.
Whether you’re hiring a builder, or being an owner builder, finding land is the first step of what may be the biggest purchase of your life. There are many [...]
Marketing Diction: Pyschological Triggers from Your Word Choice
Almost every marketer has written some form of sales copy in the past, whether it was a traditional sales letter or through a web site about a product or service. In fact, you simply cannot become a good marketer without learning how to produce powerful sales copy.
All good sales copy has subtle psychological triggers that [...]
The Truth About Owner Builder Loan Closing Costs
After owner builders work their way through the maze of owner builder construction loan qualifying, it will be time to close on the loan. This is essentially where you sit down and sign a huge stack of documents that you will never read, or understand if you try.
Basically, this is where the owner builder loan [...]
The Ultimate DIY Project: Owner Builder Construction
If you enjoy working around the home and doing various DIY projects, then maybe you’re ready for the Holy Grail of DIY – building your own home as an owner-builder. By eliminating the costs of a general contractor’s overhead, you will save tens of thousands of dollars on your next home. And it’s not as [...]
Who Are the People Involved in Your Construction Loan Process?
Whether you are building your home as an Owner Builder or hiring a General Contractor, there are several people that will be involved with your loan process in addition to the loan officer with whom you choose to work. Knowing the roles of each of these people will make your loan process flow smoothly and [...]
Are You Pre-Qualified or Pre-Approved? Knowing the Difference Can Save You a Lot of Time and Money
Nearly everyone who has ever searched for a mortgage has been asked if they would like to obtain a “pre-qualification” or a “pre-approval.” In many cases prospective home buyers are told that they “need” a pre-qualification before they can even make an offer on a home. Typically, this is required by an over-zealous real estate [...]
Shopping for an Owner Builder Construction Loan: The Features You Need to Look For Before Building
Most new homes in America are built by builders or developers who build the new home with their own money or lines of credit in order to sell the finished home to the new customer. The new buyer simply obtains a regular “purchase money” loan and buys the house.
This is the simplest form of [...]
What is an Owner-Builder, Really?
If you have been involved in construction in any way over the years, you have probably heard the term owner-builder thrown around. You may have even heard some stories about the good, the bad, and the ugly side of being an owner-builder. But, the truth is that there is a lot of misinformation out there [...]
