Building Your Custom Home For Dummies: 2nd Edition

Written by Kevin Daum, Janice Brewster Weiser, Peter Economy and Anne Mary Ciminelli

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

Build a place you'll love to come home to

Why settle for a house that looks like every other one in the neighborhood? With Building Your Custom Home For Dummies, you can design and build the home of your dreams. From brainstorming must-have features to hanging a wreath on the front door, this book walks you through what you need to know from start to finish. Get savvy on purchasing property, securing financing, and raising the walls that will become the setting for life's next chapter. If you can imagine it, you can build it!

In this book, you'll learn how to locate your ideal building site; hire an architecture and contracting team you can trust; finance smoothly and manage your construction budget; discover new green building techniques; oversee construction from A to Z; and furnish, landscape, and maintain your property.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Sep 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666135985

Kevin Daum

KEVIN DAUM is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker who has engaged and inspired audiences around the globe. A serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, Kevin built an Inc. 500 company, where his sales and marketing techniques resulted in more than $1 billion in sales. Kevin is the award-winning author of several Amazon #1 bestselling books. He is the author, co-author, or major contributor to ten books, including ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle, Video Marketing For Dummies, Building Your Custom Home For Dummies, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, and 12 Lessons in Business Leadership: Insights from the Championship Career of Tom Brady with Anne Mary Ciminelli. He was also a major contributor to the bestsellers Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and Getting the Most for Selling Your Business by Jessica Fialkovich with Anne Mary Ciminelli. Kevin’s column on Inc.com garners thousands of hits per month, and he is the host of podcast 10 Minute Tips from the Top, interviewing YPO CEOs. Kevin is a graduate of the Birthing of Giants program at MIT and was a longtime member of Entrepreneur’s Organization, where he held several board positions and founded the Silicon Valley chapter. A strong believer in the arts, Kevin has a theatre degree from Humboldt State University. Kevin also has an MS in media management from Fordham University, where he teaches media and entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor.