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  • How to Build Your Dream Home: A Step-by-Step Guide to Being Your Own General Contractor While Saving Up to $50,000

  • The 10 Step Guide to Constructing Your Dream Home in Just 26 Weeks, Book 1
  • By: Kris Land
  • Narrated by: Mark Williams
  • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (31 ratings)

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How to Build Your Dream Home: A Step-by-Step Guide to Being Your Own General Contractor While Saving Up to $50,000

By: Kris Land
Narrated by: Mark Williams
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Whether you’re building a tiny home or the mansion of your wildest dreams, here’s exactly how to do it.

Have you always dreamed of living in a space that is designed and built entirely by yourself?

Do you constantly look at other architectural designs and imagine how you would tweak it, making it better and your very own?

Maybe you’re finally ready to take the leap into designing and building your own home, but after all these years of dreaming, you aren’t quite sure where to begin.

Even if you consider yourself to be handy around the house and yard, undertaking a project of this size and capacity is sure to be a bit daunting for anyone.

It’s completely okay to feel overwhelmed!

But the beautiful thing is that when you break it down into simple and actionable steps, building your own home from the ground up is something you are entirely capable of doing.

You’ve got the skills and know-how. Now all you need is to put them into practice in an efficient way that produces the best results.

Building a new house requires a lot of foresight—things will go wrong and the plan will most likely find itself derailed at one point or another.

Although this is in many ways a natural occurrence, it doesn't have to be in any way catastrophic.

With the right plan in place and a detailed map of how to progress through the entire process, no matter the curveballs you encounter, you’ll be able to seamlessly get back into the flow of things.

It’s one thing to have the skills, but it’s another thing entirely to be able to apply them in a way that produces results.

Finally, you can have both without any extra stress.

In How to Build Your Dream Home, you’ll discover:

  • Why you’ll need to be incredibly patient with yourself as you lay the foundations of your home and begin framing
  • Detailed checklists to help ensure everything is perfectly aligned so you won’t have to make adjustments later on
  • Powerful insight and guidance for successful rough-in of plumbing, HVAC, and electricity—save both a ton of time and money
  • Effective ways to cut costs and keep the scope of your material use within reasonable budget constraints
  • Why certain tasks should be outsourced to other professionals—and how to choose the best business partners based on your unique needs and desires
  • How to take aesthetic design into your own hands with the successful installation of cabinetry, trim, and more
  • How to pull everything together and give all the final touches in one cohesive approach that won’t take more than two weeks

...and much more!

Don't sit there feeling overwhelmed, coming up with excuses for why you can't get started.

You’re ready and have what it takes to make this happen.

Now, you don't even have to make a plan.

It’s a crucial component, yes, but it’s all been taken care of for you.

Now you just need to get busy building!

If you’re ready to finally make your dream of building your own house come true, then scroll up and click the “Add to Cart” button right now.

©2022 Kris Land (P)2023 Kris Land
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Educational and Useful Listen

This audiobook has valuable tools and strategies on how to build a property home of your dreams. It not only gives great advice but it also provides a checklist and resources to help you save money and time as well. Overall I enjoyed listening to it because it's educational, helpful and inspiring as well. It's a great listen.

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Had some good ideas

I have worked for a general contractor for custom homes for years. I got this book because I was interested in seeing some of the authors ideas on where to save money. I thought over the book had a lot of ideas, tips, tricks to help a novice along the way. This type of project can come with a lot of ups and downs and hopefully, having this guide will help to avoid some headaches.

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Just what I was looking for

I’ve read a few of these on this subject and I couldn’t figure out what didn’t fulfill me in the last two. But this one is the book that finally made me feel like I had the complete picture and gave me the confidence that I was looking for. I look forward to learning more from this author. The information is presented clearly, chronologically, and effectively.

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Excelente Book

This book is excellent because it contains valuable information to create your desired home. I learned a lot from it. The most outstanding fact to me was how to be patient during construction. That is one thing I always struggle with every time I have a building in which I am involved. Amount Another thing that I learned is how to use my budget wisely. Thank you, Kris, for the creation of this book.

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Very Timely

Just the book I needed. Building my own home does not seem as daunting as it did before. This step by step guide has got me moving and I intend to keep it with me as I go through the process of building my home. I recommend this book for anyone struggling between buying a home and building your own.

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interesting listen and educational

I enjoyed this listen.
I found the information quite informative including the detailed checklists, information about plumbing, HVAC, and electricity.
Also discussed were effective ways to cut costs and keep the scope of your material use within reasonable budget constraints.
The book discussed when and how to involve professionals as well.
Overall this is a fascinating and informative listen for anyone looking to save money building a home.
I recommend this audiobook to anyone who wants more control over the home building process.

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Motivating!

Building my own home is something I have always thought about but have never really thought seriously about it. Then, I stumbled upon this book and thought, why not give it a listen? I feel more motivated than ever! The author covers every detail in this book. I believe that I can do this!

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Great book

This is a great resource for anyone thinking of building their dream home. It takes you through all the practicalities from regulations you need to consider to how you can save on building material. It also tells you when you need to get a professional involved which I found really useful

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Perfect even for experienced home builders

As a contractor, building a home can feel like an endless game of fitting all the pieces together. This book does an excellent job of outlining the process from start to finish in the best arrangement of steps possible. After listening, you have all the tools to be a great home build project manager all while saving a lot of money!

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very helpful

my wife and I have been planing some remodels on the house. this book has great suggestions and approaches. it also helped my wife and I get on the same page on going about the process and decisions to be made.

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