Building a Home with Confidence
Done Well On Time On Budget
Bill Gonce
This book is written by an experienced Builder to help the prospective homeowner Build a Home with Confidence and attain an expected end of a very happy, exciting building process by the following:
- Learn the ABC’s of how and where to start the process of building a custom home to your dreams and to your own specifications.
- Tips on how to choose the right location for your new home. It matters
- Learn how to determine what design style suits you, and choosing a Designer or Architect that will design what you want for your budget
- How to know what your true budget is before anyone launches your dream
- Learn how to thoroughly check out a Builder before you make any commitment
- How to know you will get true value for the largest personal investment in your life
- Choose the right estimating, bidding process so you don’t get burned
- Get a contract you can live with
- Find out how to get and use references to be sure of the result you want
- Find out what is expected from you during the building process
- How to get a schedule so you will know what to expect
- Learn how to keep your project on budget without overruns
- How you can be assured your project will be complete on time promised
- Find out how a little homework by you will make you completely comfortable during the planning, designing, and construction of your home
- How to have a very exciting, happy experience during your complete building process
Foreword:
Life is about learning to trust. All through life we must depend on others, especially when we do not possess certain knowledge or skills ourselves. When we board an airliner or small plane, we trust our lives to our pilot. When we board a ship, we trust the skipper to know what we don’t. When we get in an automobile as a passenger, we trust our lives to the driver, even if we have a license to drive ourselves. We trust a guide to put us on fish or game, to know the trails, our mule skinner to know his creed and be savvy in the field to keep us safe. We trust our doctors and surgeons to know the right procedures to keep us alive and healthy. We expect our pharmacist to know what ingredients to put in our pills, we trust our restaurateurs to prepare safe and delicious meals for us, and so on. We expect even more from our financial advisors to know what to expect in the future, besides..
Trust but verify, is good practice. We don’t always have the opportunity to check the qualifications of these prospective guides in our lives, but the most important ingredient we seek to lessen our fears of the unknown is EXPERIENCE. Surrounding ourselves with people with experience makes us comfortable in an experience, even if we have a little or no knowledge ourselves. We become even more comfortable when things are explained to us as to what we can expect in advance of the experience, and even more so when things happen the way they were beforehand explained!
As the author of BUILDING A HOME WITH CONFIDENCE, Bill Gonce brings 43 years of building homes together in this book to help people understand and be well prepared for the experience which demands the largest personal investment most of us will ever make in a lifetime. I have known and respected him for several years now, how much he’s been involved in the lives of people and their dreams, while dealing with the day to day challenges it’s taken to make them come true. His experience has made him an authority in the building process. You, as the reader, will find you will benefit greatly from his stories in real life building projects to help you know what to expect in building YOUR home with confidence and how to be prepared and to avoid pitfalls that you hear others have had. You’ll be pleasantly surprised, and able to share in his belief that building a home should be a fun, exciting process, in which you will cherish not only the experience of building, but have an expected end, resulting in a beautiful new home that you will love to share with your friends and loved ones from then on. You will find out chapter by chapter from Bill just how important relationships are to you and to him, in making and using them to bring value to people’s lives.
