Dealing With Builders

<I>Dealing With Builders</I> is a comprehensive how-to manual for both novice and seasoned buyers of homes. The book walks a prospective purchaser step by step through the myriad stages financial arrangements and documents with which he or she will have to develop a comprehensive familiarity in order to shepherd the process of building a new home or buying an existing one to a successful conclusion. It also introduces the reader to the various professionals - including foremen supervisors salespersons lenders and others - whose interactions with a buyer and with each other must be carefully synchronized. It explains the argot of the construction industry term by term and it includes worksheets checklists charts and a litany of do's and don't's that if faithfully applied will transform a new home purchaser into a skilled negotiator.</P>