Home Renovation Checklist: Everything You Need to Know to Save Money, Time, and Your Sanity

by Robert Irwin

An indispensable quick-check guide to saving money and headaches during home renovations Lured by skyrocketing real estate values, more Americans than ever are renovating their homes. Some have had some experience with home renovations. Many are trying their hands at it for the first time. Most are totally unprepared for the thousand-and-one pitfalls, screw-ups, and headaches that can plague a home improve project, including runaway costs, unscrupulous suppliers and contractors, arcane building codes, and more. Written by America's #1 source of real estate know-how, Home Renovation Checklist is an indispensable guide to navigating the renovation process and keeping costs, time, and headaches involved to a minimum. Modeled after Irwin's bestselling Home Buyer's Checklist , this book is packed with hundreds of checklist questions (and answers) covering every detail of any home improvement project, including:

196 pages, Paperback

First published May 8, 2003

About the author

Robert Irwin’s career in the real estate industry encompasses more than three decades of experience as real estate broker, landlord, and consultant to lenders, agents, and investors. He is the bestselling author of more than 50 books on real estate, including The Armchair Real Estate Investor, Fix It, Stage It, Sell It - Quick!, Buy Your First Home, The For Sale By Owner Kit, McGraw-Hill’s Tips & Traps series, and the latest edition of Buy, Rent, and Sell. A long-time voice of authority, Robert Irwin addresses landlording, investing, and homebuying issues with crystal clarity.

Reviews

[Kathleen]

I'll probably reference this during construction. However, it's not really a checklist. Some of the checklist items are questions that do not at all work in the check list format. I know that shouldn't bother me so much, but pretending "should I get more than one bid?" makes sense as check-able? A more accurate title for this book would be something like "10,000 questions you should ask yourself if you're doing a renovation."