| The homebuilding industry has this aura of | | | | connection the knowledge of the entire world |
| mystery and awe around it for a lot of people | | | | is literally at your fingertips so there is |
| who think that they cannot possibly build | | | | virtually nothing that you cannot learn to do |
| their own home. Many mistakenly believe that | | | | if you have the desire and the inclination. |
| to build your own home you must know | | | | |
| everything about every part of the process of | | | | The way the building process normally works |
| building a home. The fact of the matter is | | | | is that we purchase a home from a builder who |
| that most people including contractors don't | | | | has a general contractor's license. What does |
| know every phase and that is why | | | | this mean? It means in most cases the general |
| subcontractors are used. We may know a little | | | | contractor really does nothing more than |
| bit about electrical work, plumbing, or | | | | manage several subcontractors who actually do |
| carpentry or even be able to tile our own | | | | all the work of building the home. In many |
| floor but it is doubtful that we know how to | | | | cases, they even have supervisors who watch |
| build a house without doing some research. | | | | the subcontractors so they aren't even |
| | | | involved in that! So why can't you do that? |
| First off, it is totally unnecessary to | | | | In actuality there is no reason you can't. |
| understand exactly how everything works to be | | | | All you have to do is pay a general |
| able to do something. I have no idea how my | | | | contractor to help you with the permitting |
| TV gets 200 channels from a Satellite | | | | process, which many are willing to do because |
| hundreds of miles above me but I still watch | | | | it basically money for nothing for them. You |
| it. I have no idea how my wireless Bluetooth | | | | simply act as the general contractor yourself |
| headset works that I am using to talk on my | | | | and manage the hiring and supervision of |
| cell phone that I also don't get the concept | | | | subcontractors yourself and save yourself |
| of while I am typing this article on my | | | | thousands of dollars in the process and still |
| computer. | | | | have the house of your dreams. |
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| The point I am trying to make here is that it | | | | Now that you see it isn't all that difficult |
| is not a prerequisite to be a wealth of | | | | you should try to build your next home |
| knowledge about an endeavor in order to | | | | yourself and save that money for something |
| participate in it. With an internet | | | | else, like retirement and vacations. |