I Want A New House is an entertaining and educational eye opener for anyone thinking about their next house. A must read to help you maintain your sanity, learn the inside truths about how contractors work, and advice if you are looking at previously owned homes. This workbook format will help you define choices and avoid mistakes in selecting your next home.

Spiral Bound. 244 Pages.

Written by Joe Prin and Stuart Gustafson – Copyright 2009
Available in Hard Copy or as a PDF File

Spiral Bound Hard Copy – $39.95

PDF File – $9.99

Description

At some point in time, you, your spouse, or someone, will look at you and say “I Want A New House.” How you react to this powerful statement and what you do about it can be a life-changing event. Whether your next house is your first house, your third, or what you expect to be your last house, the principles and empowering sequences you will learn in I Want A New House will give you the knowledge and tools to get through the process not only successfully, but with excitement and positive results.

Is this a good time to be thinking about a new house? We all know what is going on in the world right now. And because of this, now is the PERFECT time for this book. For those who read, understand, and put into practice the advice and information contained in this book, they (you!) will be in the best position to act on opportunity when the time is right. You will know things that others won’t. You will have an advantage.

You have probably heard stories about how difficult it was to select and move to a new house. Or how once a person got into their new house, it was not what they expected. Or how building a custom home almost destroyed a marriage. Or how homeowners were at the mercy of others involved in the transaction. Read and do what Joe Prin and Stuart Gustafson have outlined in this informative and valuable book and you will not be the person others tell stories about.

It should be noted that while you can simply read through I Want A New House, cover to cover, and gain a tremendous education and a few laughs, the real benefits come from building “The Notebook” suggested by the authors. The spiral bound format will allow you to flop open I Want A New House on the kitchen table or the hood of your car. It should be used as the most important tool in getting or building your next house. Carrying “The Notebook” you have built under your arm, you will be in control of all that is going on around you, and your next house will be exactly what you wanted. If not, read the book again, you must have missed something.

Do you want a new house or a used house? Is this next house for your Golden Years or is it to start off and raise your family in? How much house can you afford, and when is too much, well… too much! Stories, examples, tangential humor, and some just plain “out of left field comments” make this an enjoyable read for anybody. Even if that next house is a few years away.

Those factors and the knowledge that you were the first to put any real miles on it were strong lures to buy that “new car,” rather than a used car. A new car was just that much better, even though you might have known that the used car was more practical. The same holds true when you have decided that it is time to move – to a new house. Are you going to buy the first one you see, or would you prefer to use a systematic way of determining “which” house to buy? That’s where the new book I Want a New House! comes into the picture to help you.

Joe Prin is a registered remodeler and has been hosting a weekly “How to Fix it around your house” radio show for over twenty years. He has teamed with nationally published author Stuart Gustafson to write I Want a New House! to walk you through the plan – The Plan – once you have made the decision to move. Subtitled “An Entertaining and Educational Eye Opener for Anyone Thinking About Their New House,” the book starts with that peaceful Saturday evening surprise when you hear “I want a new house.” After you pick yourself up from the deck, you begin to develop your plan so you get the right house, whether you are buying it or building it.

Do you want a new house or is “used” okay for you? Do you want to live in a planned subdivision subject to the CC&R’s, or do you prefer to have some freedom and space? Do you know how much you can afford for your new house (and that’s not necessarily the same as how much you qualify for), and do you know what to do before you apply for the loan?

These are just some of the topics that are detailed for you so you make the right decisions along the way, and you know what questions to ask – after all it is going to be your house. I Want a New House! includes checklists to make sure you haven’t forgotten anything; the layout for a notebook that becomes your documentation from the beginning – and you hold on to it because it also contains your warranty information; an invaluable resource directory of the “types of people” you need to know whether you are buying or building, and the famous “Diary of a Mad Home Builder” – the chronology of the fellow who proved to the world that “Yes, he could build his own home!” It is never too early to beginning the planning for your next house – I Want a New House! will help you get started along the right path.