Plan and Oversee Your Custom Home Build is a self-paced online course built from the Wiley title of the same name.

What this course covers

Introduction
Part 1: Getting Started with Custom-Home Building
Chapter 1: The Custom-Home Process in a Nutshell
Chapter 2: Preparing for the Process
Chapter 3: The Land Grab: Selecting the Perfect Site
Chapter 4: Defining Your House Style
Part 2: Assembling Your Team
Chapter 5: Architects and Design: Time Spent Is Money Saved
Chapter 6: Engineers and City Folk: Approval Bureaucracy Made Somewhat Easy
Chapter 7: All the King’s Men: The Contractor and Their Cohorts
Part 3: All You Need Is Dough: Financing Your Custom Home
Chapter 8: Cash Is King: Borrowing to Your Advantage
Chapter 9: Knowledge Is Power: What You Don’t Know about Construction Loans Can Hurt You
Chapter 10: Qualifying: It’s the Bank’s Way or the Highway
Chapter 11: Show Me the Money: Flowing Cash through the Project
Part 4: Hammers and Nails: Overseeing the Construction Process
Chapter 12: Excavation and Foundation: Getting a Solid Start
Chapter 13: Framing and Rough: So Much Goes behind Those Walls!
Chapter 14: Heading for the Finish: The Devil’s in the Details
Part 5: All the After Stuff
Chapter 15: Making a House a Home: Moving In, Furnishing, and Using Smart Tech
Chapter 16: Taking It Outside: The Art of Landscaping and Hardscaping
Chapter 17: Making Your Nest Egg Financially Sound
Part 6: The Part of Tens
Chapter 18: Ten Common Custom-Home Mistakes and How to Avoid ’Em
Chapter 19: Ten Great Ways to Lower Construction Costs
Chapter 20: Ten Common Stuck-in-the-Middle Problems and Their Fixes
Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Build Sustainably
Chapter 22: Ten Helpful Custom-Home Resources