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What home and community features influence consumers when they are considering buying a home? Energy efficient or high efficiency: Which description resonates more with home buyers? Typical home buyers often don't understand the language building professionals use to market green homes. We can meet this challenge by rethinking how we talk to our customers. In the Spring of 2015, the NAHB Sustainability Green Building and the Economics Housing Policy Groups partnered to conduct a study of consumer preferences focusing exclusively on green/high-performance features in the home and the community. What Green Means to Home Buyers: Perceptions and Preferences discusses the latest data on the green and performance-related messages consumers respond to and what they are willing to pay for.

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Make peace, not war, with your home!Aching from another weekend playing home repair warrior? Tired of spending precious vacation time performing home maintenance heroics that you put off all year? Whether you love your home or hate it, spending a few minutes each week caring for it is essential to ensuring its livability and value now and the best sales price later.This book provides a sensible approach to regular home maintenance. It's a small commitment with a big payoff: spending a few minutes each week helps you avoid long-term preventable problems such as water damage, pests, and air infiltration that can cost you money now and even more money in the future.This book will actually save you cash by teaching you how easily you can prioritize and perform common maintenance tasks quickly and what to know before you call in a pro. You'll learn the latest energy saving products, tips, and techniques to put money in your pocket right now. And you'll be able to spend the money you save on that coveted man cave, kitchen remodel, or a brand new home.Home Maintenance Made Easy will help you: Manage tasks with handy month-by-month checklists; Organize records of parts, repairs, warranties, replacements, and phone numbers/contact information in one place; Troubleshoot problems step-by-step; Learn when to "do it yourself" and when to call in a pro. Assemble an inexpensive home maintenance toolbox; Preserve your investment and keep your home looking like new; Avoid costly mistakes. The tips in this book have been tested, used, and are recommended by professional builders and remodelers.

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Business owners often learn how to run a successful company the hard way - through trial and error. You don't have to rely on this haphazard approach to entrepreneurship. As a home builder, you can have the wisdom and experience of NAHB members who have weathered the ups and downs of the housing cycle behind you and avoid reinventing the wheel. Survive and Thrive in Building: Fundamentals of Business Management covers basic but essential knowledge for running a successful company, whether you're a veteran builder or new to residential construction. You'll learn how to: Find a sustainable market niche; Get financing for your projects; Market your homes; Achieve an optimal balance between sales volume and profit margin; Understand financial reports; Organize and insure your company to minimize risk; Find and keep the best employees and trade contractors.This comprehensive resource will help you to become informed about the details of marketing, estimating, contracts, purchasing, and accounting, which are as important to the potential success of your business as knowing your construction guidelines. You will also understand the knowledge, skills, and strategies you can apply to foster lasting success in the home building industry. Survive and Thrive in Building includes a list of resources, illustrations, and a glossary.

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Answers to common code questions at your fingertips This handy jobsite tool will become as indispensable to you as your cell phone, tape measure, and level. This pocket-friendly companion to the International Residential Code discusses the impact of 2015 code changes to common walls separating townhouses, remodeling of an existing basement, and more. 2015 Home Builders' Jobsite Codes also details ramps that do not serve the required egress door and common monoxide alarms. It includes more than 100 detailed illustrations and useful tables and discussion, among other areas, of Foundations; Fire safety; Energy efficiency; Mechanical systems; Safe and healthy living environments. 2015 Home Builders Jobsite Codes is meant to be of practical use on the jobsite, not as a substitute for the IRC.

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