New ABA Legal Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Home Renovation
CHICAGO, Sept. 1, 2006 – If you own a home, condominium or co-op, you will probably at some point want to renovate a room, add an extension or put in a pool. While dozens of television shows make a do-it-yourself job look easy, home improvement is harder than it looks.
The American Bar Association Legal Guide to Home Renovation: Everything You Need to Know about the Law and Insurance, Permits, and Contracts provides the legal expertise to help you plan, finance, and manage a home improvement project.
Whether you are hiring contractors or doing the work on your own, this essential guide makes the legal side of home renovation manageable, so you can make the right choices and the get the job done. The most comprehensive guide of its kind, the 224-page book features up-to-date information on contracts, permits and inspections.
The guide is divided into 10 chapters with real life examples and straightforward discussions covering everything from “Getting Ready to Renovate: Planning, Financing, and Insurance” and “Do It Yourself: From Scheduling to Subcontractors” to “Resolving Disputes: When Renovations Go Wrong” and “Government Agencies and Legal Protections: Some Protection from Unscrupulous Contractors.”
The American Bar Association Legal Guide to Home Renovation is widely available in book stores and through online book sellers, or can be ordered directly from the ABA.
With more than 410,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law in a democratic society.
Title: The American Bar Association Legal Guide to Home Renovation
Publisher: Random House Reference
Pages: 224
Product Code: 2350224
ISBN: 978 0 375 721427
Size: 5 x 8
Binding: Paperback
Price: $16.95
Order: www.ababooks.org and search for product code 2350224 or call 800/285-2221 and request product code 2350224.
Editor’s note: A sample chapter on protecting yourself from unscrupulous contractors is available online at http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=2350224. Review copies are available by sending an e-mail to Katie Fraser, fraserk@staff.abanet.org. If you publish a review of this book, please send tearsheets or a copy for our files to Katie Fraser, American Bar Association, Division for Public Education, 321 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Ill. 60610.
