Home Building Resources

Summary: Home Building Resources such as contractors, subcontractors, and building material suppliers are the main assets of any home builder or remodeling contractor.

Being your own General Contractor for building or remodeling a home mainly entails planning, determining building costs, buying building materials and then finding and hiring the professional contractors and subcontractors to do the actual work.

It is impossible to succeed and accomplish any of the tasks involved in being your own General Contractor without help from the army of home building contractors, subcontractors, building material suppliers, and home building and home improvement service companies that exist solely for the purpose of seeing you succeed, for if you succeed, they succeed! Carl Heldmann

Planning:
Your credit score determines the interest rate you will pay and your credit worthiness to lenders. PERIOD! So, check here and find out what your credit score is. The higher your score, the lower your rate and monthly payments will be, as well as your chances of getting a construction loan!

New Home Plans:
New Home Plans has some of my favorite home plan web sites

Design Your Own Home:
Punch Software is the #1 best-selling home and landscape design retail software brand in the United States for a reason.

Plan3D.com - the world's most realistic home design tool built into a web page. Design one room, create a three story home, remodel a bathroom or kitchen, or redo your yard. Plan3D lets you see ideas with dimensions in blueprint-like mode. Best of all, you see your ideas come to life in realistic 3D.

Prescreened subcontractors:
HomeAdvisor can't guarantee the workmanship of a Service Professional, but they are there to help your project go smoothly...they'll even provide up to $500 of additional labor toward making the job right.

Shopping:
Visit Lumber Liquidators! Lumber Liquidators prides itself with having one of the largest inventories of pre-finished and unfinished hardwood floors in the industry. Lumber Liquidators negotiates directly with the mills to buy an entire years production. This tactic eliminates the middleman and allows the savings to be passed on to the customers who appreciate the "hardwood flooring for less" method of buying. Get some Great Deals on Flooring!

PlumberSurplus.com offers its customers tens of thousands of plumbing, home improvement, and building products in a range of categories including Kitchen and Bathroom, Water Heaters, Lighting, Pumps, Tools, Access Doors, Valves, Commercial and more.

Shop new Featured Products! Guaranteed Low Prices, Now Even Lower only @ homedepot.com. Featured Products at Home Depot on line, many with FREE shipping, number over 6,000 items from Appliances to Wireless pet containment systems. Great on line prices and great selections.

eSale Rugs is the largest purveyor of fine Persian and Oriental rugs in the world. We have been in the business of buying and selling Persian and oriental rugs for over 35 years in the US and Switzerland.
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Other Useful Resources:
Buying a Foreclosure might be a smart move! You can end up with TWICE as much equity than if you built a comparable house. There are some incredible real estate opportunities out there, in almost every state in the nation. Some of these foreclosed homes are very nice, and in good neighborhoods.

RealtyTrac provides all the resources that home seekers, investors and real estate agents need to locate, evaluate and buy properties below market value! Founded in 1996, RealtyTrac publishes the largest and most comprehensive national database of preforeclosure, foreclosure, For Sale by Owner, resale and new construction properties, with more than 1 million properties across the country, property reports, productivity tools and extensive professional resource. Start searching for your next home today with RealtyTrac and save money. Join now

Foreclosure.com is America's largest provider of distressed properties, with more than 1.8 million foreclosure, preforeclosure, bankruptcies, FSBO and tax lien listings across the United States located conveniently in one place. We deliver the latest, most complete residential foreclosure property listings in an easy, accessible format to our customers and business partners.

New England Metal Roof has a tool that calculates a ballpark figure for any roofing project, and they pledge to provide New England homeowners and businesses with the highest quality of metal roofing installations. They provide great service at reasonable prices, free roofing estimates, and unmatched warranty. Residential and commercial areas served include, RI, MA, CT, NH, ME, VT, NY, NJ, and PA.

Home Builders:
Green Home Builder Directory is a Directory of Green Home Building Contractors in the US and Canada. Find custom home builders, and sustainable design contractors.