I am trying to gather all of the information I can on every little step of general contracting a home and running a company. Can anyone suggest a good book that is very extensive?
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I think there is a sometimes subtle but yet very disctinct difference in the
skill sets between "general contracting a home" and "running
a company"
My suggested book list for a course in Introduction to Running a Construction
Company-101 list reads as follows:
E-Myth Contractor Have you also read any of the following books:
& Profit: A Contractor's Guide by Michael C. Stone
Business for Contractors: A Guide to Money and the Law by Jim Kramon
builders and remodelers describing the techniques that have worked for them
( you can get it from JLC-Online)
Builders Guide to Running a Successful Construction Company by David Gerstel
Remodeler's Guide To Making & Managing Money: A Common Sense Approach
To Optimizing Compensation & Profit- by Linda W. Case
"Architecture is the
handwriting of Man." - Bernard
Maybeck.