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Do It Yourself - DIY Home Building Challenges

 
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A Do It Yourself Builder has great intentions, but DIY Home Building is difficult. Saving money by managing your Do It Yourself home building project, and potentially providing some labor, is a great idea and many people do it. But, unfortunately for most Do It Yourself'ers, inexperience often leads to longer than expected project schedules and project overages. The accumulation of additional interest, insurance costs, and loan extension fees quickly add up and eat away at the money you would save to do the project yourself.
 
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Construction Management is a very complicated process requiring several disciplines and industry knowledge. Project participants are made up of Sub Contractors and Suppliers from dozens of different companies. This makes it very challenging for even the most seasoned Builder to keep a project on schedule. The difficulties involved for an owner builder working on their first DIY home building project, are that much more involved.
 
       
       
         
     
Successful projects in any industry have two things in common; they have the right people and use the right project management tools. Even if you have the right people, you still need the ability to effectively communicate, evaluate progress, identify issues, and find workarounds before things get out of hand.
 
         
     
GreenHomeCoach was designed to eliminate these challenges by providing the Do It Yourself home builder with the proper online tools and an experienced BuilderCoach who will act as your personal owner builder consultant to help you out every step of the way.