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Save 25% Without Lifting A Hammer - Be Your Own General Contractor

"You can do it, I can help!" - Carl Heldmann

"Build my own home? Build my own house? You must be dreaming!" I myself had the same questions and fears many years ago.

Well, you can build your own house! Hundreds of thousands do it every year and save enough money building their own home, renovating, or adding on to their house, to make their dreams come true.

Most knew little or nothing about building, yet they saved 25% or more. They did so by being the General Contractor (GC), determining building costs & hiring professionals (subcontractors) to do the actual work.

You too can be your own General Contractor for ANY type of construction: a new home, adding room additions, remodeling older homes, even renovating foreclosures.

  • New construction, log homes, modular homes, kit homes, panelized homes, geodesic domes, concrete homes, etc.
  • Save even more than 25% by being your own GC for renovating or additions.
  • Imagine saving $25,000, $50,000, $75,000 or more.
  • Or, you could sell the new house and realize the cash profit.
  • Then, build the same house again with a smaller mortgage, or build a bigger house, or eventually even have a Mortgage FREE house!
  • Now, with byoh.com, you can have up-to-the-minute help in building your own home or home additions, with current cost to build a house, mortgage interest rates, credit score info, house plans, sample construction contracts, construction loans, construction cost estimating, construction cost estimating software, and much more.

Building a new home is not as complicated as most people think. There are many fine people who will help you in all the phases of being your own general contractor. Most offer free help.

I am one of them,
Carl Heldmann
Note: Even if you hire a new custom home builder or just buy a new home instead of being an owner builder, the knowledge gained from byoh.com and my books will make you a very well informed new home buyer.

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