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USER-FRIENDLY
HOUSES ARE JUST BETTER
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Functional,
user-friendly homes
are a win-win situation
for buyers, builders and sales agents. |
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Buyers -a user-friendly house is simply a better house Houses are built to sell and this means they must look "good." But after you move in, you'll find that function (how the house works for you) and user-friendliness are as important as the looks that attracted you in the first place. There are a myriad of details that you should be concerned about and, unless you have spent a lot of time being critical of the functionality of houses, there will be a number of things you'll wish had been done differently. Each time you move into another home you'll find something you'll want to avoid in your next ones. If you have a refrigerator in the corner, you won't do that again. But what about a dining room that's too small or the clearance in front of ovens and dishwashers...the list goes on and on. Ferguson spent years looking for the things that should have been better. Then he wrote Build It Right! If you're buying a house yet to be built (a custom house or a modified spec or tract house), you'll have some control over what's going into it. If you're buying an existing house (a used house, a spec house or one in a tract) you'll try to get user-unfriendly features fixed - either initially or later. Either way, you'll know what you're going to be living with before you move in. And don't forget, The New-Home Checklist is available to help you make sure you haven't overlooked something. Build
It Right!
and the bonus New Home Checklist
can be shipped immediately. |
"Whether you are custom-designing
a new house or buying a tract or resale house, this book is must
reading. Its practical advice shows features to avoid, those to
include and ways to solve home design problems. On my scale of
one to ten it ranks a solid ten."
"If I were still designing houses I would give every potential client a copy of this book so they could take advantage of the book's wealth of home design information before we planned their house. It would make design communications more effective. More informed home owners make choices which fit their needs best." ---James E. Jones, Licensed Architect, National Council of Architectural Regulation Boards, Accredited
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Professionals -put simply, a better product will improve the bottom line When you help people get better homes, you both win. They'll tell their friends how pleased they are and how much you helped them. That's word-of-mouth, the absolutely best kind of promotion. The earlier you can get in the design/ construction/ selling cycle, the better. If you are working directly with the buyer during the design period, you can influence them by the simple gesture of giving them a copy of Built It Right! It'll result in that better home they'll tell their friends about. And it'll make life easier for you because they can take the time to go over the book and won't need to take your time with so many questions. (It's deliberately made to be easy reading, even for the non-professional.) If you're a buyer's agent, the book is another tool to help you please your clients. Here, too, the giveaway copy of the book helps in two ways: it enhances your professionalism in their eyes and it gets them a better home. Both of which lead to the recommendations that keep your business growing. Wherever you may fit in the home building industry, you will benefit from the book. Read it yourself, then get copies to give to your customers. We have quantity discounts for Build It Right! for those who want to use the book as a giveaway. Contact Us for prices. And see how Tim Miller, a Taos, New Mexico contractor, uses Build It Right!
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