The Owner-Builder Book by Elaine M. Smith, Mark A. Smith (2002, Paperback)

We checked out several building books from the library, and this was not one of them. We looked at several and chose three or four to purchase. I saw this one online and was a little leary to just take a chance, but the price was good, so I figured what the heck. It was the best one of the bunch! We think the pricing info. alone is worth it. They did spend relatively more time than necessary convincing you that building on your own is really a good idea, and talking about all the schemes of contractors. I don't agree that all contractors are quite as bad as they make out, it is pretty one sided in that way, but it is a good resource and if you can sort of get past the early pages and simply accept that they're trying to "sell" you hard on the owner builder process, then the rest of it is on target and INVALUABLE.