Learn how to obtain financing, control costs, ensure consistent quality standards, and more effectively manage your employees and trade contractors. You’ll find out how to identify market and industry trends that will yield business opportunities. Whether you are just starting your small-volume building business or you want to refine your current business practices, Basic Business Management will provide you with management guidance you can use to improve your efficiency and profitability.

Basic Business Management: A Guide for Small Volume Home Builders

Business & Money

Fowler, Dorn

Management & Leadership

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Foundations must be designed for the specific site conditions and floor plans. This comprehensive guide describes all major foundation types and provides step-by-step instructions on how to plan and construct stable, safe, efficient foundations, with topics ranging from soil conditions and estimating, to using precast panels and planning for water control.

Residential Foundations

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Carr, Jim

Carr, Jim K.

Home Improvement & Design

Remodelers across the country have learned that the surest way to deliver a successful job is to give it the full-time, undivided attention of a skilled, quality-conscious lead carpenter. Complete with a step-by-step system, case studies, and more than 100 computerized forms, The Lead Carpenter System demonstrates how assigning a lead carpenter to each job can produce healthy profits and happy customers. Find out how successful remodeling firms have adapted this bottom-up production management system to ensure high-quality, on-time, on-budget execution of each job. 
This practical guide will show you how to set up your company's lead carpenter system, select and hire high-quality lead carpenters,and maintain communications between your office and job sites.

The Lead Carpenter System: A Guide for Remodelers and Their Employees

Jordan, Wendy Adler

Every time a builder visits a competitor's new home neighborhood, that's market research. Every interview with an architect or interior designer and every portfolio review adds to market research. Every meeting with miffed homeowners, every celebratory block party - well, you get the idea. You are probably conducting informal market research already. Find out how to analyze and use this information to your greatest advantage in From Good Market Research to Great Marketing: A How-to Guide for Home Builders. Collecting market and buyer information requires skills you can readily learn with a little practice. The potential for increasing profits is enormous. New home marketing expert Colleen Edwards discusses how to determine your audience, develop a product that meets their needs, and promote your homes and services to this target audience. From low cost market research you can conduct yourself to advice on hiring a consultant, Edwards examines a wide variety of market research techniques. Full of interviews, examples, and stories of real builders, From Good Market Research to Great Marketing will help you develop the skills to: • Perform your own market research by talking to customers, visiting competitors products, and accessing local information resources • Conduct focus groups to identify key issues that impact what you build and how you market. • Use exit surveys and satisfaction studies determine your strengths and weaknesses • Address influential audiences, such as land sellers and approval boards, early in the building process Implement your research findings to select the best media for advertising

From Good Market Research To Great Marketing: A How-To Guide for Home Builders

EDWARDS, COLLEEN

Industries

This book shows how to increase the professionalism and loyalty of the trades by treating them as an extension of your building team. Techniques include finding and evaluating contractors, effective scheduling, ensuring quality performance, and negotiating and writing effective trade contractor agreements.

Building Partnerships: How to Work with Trade Contractors

Whitten, Bob

Excel is one of the most powerful tools any home builder can use. This books gives you step-by-step instructions on how to create a fully customized estimating program and improve the accuracy of your estimates. With easy to understand examples, screen shots and a tutorial CD-ROM you will be able to create estimates you can rely on for your most important management decisions. Use Excel to make your estimating faster, more accurate, and more organized.

Estimating With Microsoft Excel: Unlocking the Power for Home Builders

Christofferson, Jay

Computers & Technology

Refine your sales procedures and increase your sales by using the policies and procedures featured in The Home Builder's Sales Management Tool Kit. Whether you work with Brokers, Agents, On-Site Sales Associates, or some of each, communication of consistent policies and procedures helps ensure a smooth sales process. Documented procedures also support your training efforts and protect you in the case of disputes. Resources found in the Sales Management Tool Kit include-- 
Working with On-Site Sales Associates provides the policies and procedures crucial to a comprehensive sales program. This model sales policy manual will help you set up consistent procedures to manage sales office operations, personnel, broker participation, reservations, contract administration, contingencies,selection meetings, change orders, model and inventory homes, and sales incentives. 
Working with Brokers and Agents details how a builder can increase sales by implementing a Broker Co-op Program. Find out how to court the best Brokers, improve your reputation in the Broker community, define roles and expectations, and manage the Builder-Broker relationship so you both enjoy a profitable partnership. 
Model Broker Co-op Program can be used by builders and their sales associates to establish and document expectations up front when working with brokers. The program includes suggested policies and procedures covering registration, commissions, communications, contracts, and disputes. 
The Sales Management Tool Kit includes a disk with a sample sales policy manual, Working with On-Site Sales Associates; the Model Broker Co-op Program; and more than 30 sample forms and checklists. You can use these resources as they appear in the book or adapt them to meet the unique requirements of your sales management program. Soft-cover with disk.

The Home Builder's Sales Management Took Kit: Working with Brokers, Agents, and On-Site Sales Associates (Carol Smith's Customer Relations Series)

Science & Math

Radice, Dennis

Technology

Please fix the authors. Correct authors are William Asdal and Wendy A. Jordan

The Paper Trail: Systems and Forms for a Well-Run Remodeling Company

Jordan, Wendy A.

Asdal, William

Develop an effective green home building business with the NAHB Research Center's resident expert, Jeannie Leggett Sikora. She has combed through hundreds of annual contest entries and talked to past award winners to develop specific examples and tried-and-true techniques to give home builders the inside track to create successful green building practices, for choosing products to marketing energy efficient homes.

Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes

Engineering & Transportation

Jeannie Leggett Sikora

Engineering

This outstanding new book from Carol Smith covers four major issues confronting a builder’s front-line personnel: 
· Pre-construction Meeting · Frame Stage Tour · New Home Buyer Orientation and · Warranty Service. 
Master each of these issues with step-by-step instructions on policies, procedures, predictable situations and how to handle problems that arise during orientation. 
Meetings with Clients also serves as the self-study guide for candidates of certification as a Customer Relations Professional.

Meetings with Clients: A Self-Study Manual for a Builder's Frontline Personnel

Smith, Carol

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