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The Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association offers several resources to educate home buyers before and after building a new home. Learn more about the building process as well as how to maintain your new home after closing using these helpful books.
The Building Process and Choosing a Builder Brochures
These are two excellent brochures available in the bookstore for you if you just need a little information. The Building Process is a great affordable resource to help through the process of building your new home. This publication will provide you with basic information on building you new home and what to expect. Choosing a Builder helps you ask for important information that you may not realize you need. It is very important that you know what to ask your builder for before starting your new home. The brochures are at an extremely low price and ready for shipment. Price: $1.56 each
Building Your New Home
This 52-page booklet answers your questions from giving an overview of the construction process to explaining why requesting 'slight changes' can affect the schedule and budget. The chapters cover preliminary steps, the construction process, the construction sequence and the homeowner orientation. Price: $5
Your New Home and How to Take Care of It
There are more than 3,000 components to your home. This booklet helps you from move-in to caring for and maintaining your investment. Price: $5
Caring For Your New Home
This book is the "owner’s manual" that demystifies the anatomy of your house and explains the whys and how-tos behind critical maintenance tasks. With sections devoted to yard care, exterior maintenance, roof care, interior maintenance, budgeting, and more, Caring For Your Home describes the steps you need to take to care for the major systems of your home. Tips on materials, tools and techniques, and how to know when you should call in the pros, help you plan ahead, save money and maintain the value of your home. Caring For Your Home also contains a handy seasonal checklist to remind you when routine maintenance is due. Price: $32.46
Homeowner Handbook
The Homeowner Handbook is an easy-to-read, home buyer's resource guide to home maintenance and care. Published by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association, the Handbook is offered to you by approved builders. It details simple steps you can take to preserve and protect your new home. The book clearly states homeowner maintenance items, builder warranty items, safety tips and helpful hints. The Homeowner Handbook also establishes building performance standards that were developed and approved by HBA members. Click here to learn more. Price: $59.95
For more information or to place an order, contact Amanda Meadows at 678-775-1469. All books will be shipped UPS. Shipping is 5 percent ($5 minimum) of your purchase. Tax is 7 percent of your purchase. Be sure to add these into the cost of your book.
