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GENERAL HELP

www.askthebuilder.com
Tim Carver's weekly column appears in numerous papers across the country. While for remodelers, it also has useful advice for home buyers and builders.

www.build.com
Directories for Manufacturers, Online Merchants, Professional Services, and Publications provide visitors with a comprehensive source of building and home improvement information.

www.buildingonline.com
A directory service "where the building industry is found on the Internet."

www. ownerbuilder.com
A lot of useful info for anyone building or remodeling a house. The site offers a free ebook, "Home Building Consumer's Guide & Video", which could be helpful. You may find the many of the links (over 50 of them) to other sites are helpful to you as well.

www.ourfamilyplace.com/homebuyer/
An informational site (no product or service being sold) with lots of good solid advice for anyone buying (or building) a home.

nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=defect
A Web Ring consisting of over 80 sites with potentially helpful information for people building or buying a new home. Most sites are stories about what bad builders did to buyers...things to be careful of. A few sites are basically content pages that could be of benefit. Be prepared to sift.

  
BOOKS

www.bainebooks.com
Publishes and sells books to help home buyers, do-it-yourselfers and remodellers.

www.branchor.com
Books on moving, particularly international.

www.nwbuildnet.com/nwbn/buildersbookloft.html
The Builders BookLoft offers a great online selection of books & software titles for architects, engineers, contractors, homeowners & anyone interested in construction, architecture, design, building & home improvement.

 

BUYING & SELLING HELP

www.audrie.com
Lots of help for people considering the sale of their home---or the purchase of a new one.

www.naeba.org
This is the website of The National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents, a group of real estate companies who act as agents for home buyers only. No part of their companies represent sellers so that they not faced with the inevitable conflict of interest surrounding most real estate transactions. The site includes a directory to help you find an NAEBA company in your area.

  
OWNER-BUILDER SCHOOLS

www.ownerbuildercenter.com
Fair Oaks, CA (Sacramento)

www.ubuildit.com
Headquarters in Kirkland, WA. Other offices inside and outside of Washington state.

www.youbuild.com
Valencia, CA

  
HOUSE PLANS

www.designsplus.com
A large collection of plans, well categorized, with other information you may find useful.

  

HOUSE INSPECTORS

www.housedetective.com
Columnist Barry Stone's articles introduce you to the importance of having a house inspector when buying a home.

www.homeinspectorlocator.com
A site that lists home inspectors by state and location.

HOMEOWNER GROUPS

www.homeowners.org
Public benefit consumer group dedicated to helping homeowners in California. Questions and advice on home remodeling preparation or with problems is available by e-mail or on their state-wide toll free phone number 1-800-692-HOME. Organization also provides consumer information on home purchasing.

 

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