Mrs. Fixit Easy Home Repair

Clueless about caulking your bathtub or replacing a phone jack? Think fixing a leaky faucet or hanging a window valance are jobs for the experts only? On every page of this easy-to-use household companion, television's hugely popular handywoman lays out fast, easy, money-saving tips for tackling hundreds of home repairs on your own.

Save Energy, Save Money: Simple Steps to Slash Your Energy Use and Costs

Save Energy, Save Money has hundreds of hints on home heating and insulation, appliance usage and driving tips designed to guide readers to a substantial money-saving, energy-conserving lifestyle. There is even a section on how to survive in a worst case scenario - with no heat or electricity during a winter blizzard.

Practical Guide to Alterations and Improvements

A practical guide which enables small builders to tackle everyday alteration and improvement projects with confidence.

Practical Guide to Alterations and Extensions

This simple-to-use, practical guide to altering or extending property is invaluable to all those who are trying to ensure that the processes involved are carried out efficiently and cost-effectively.

Make Money with Fixer-Uppers and Renovations

New safe way to grow wealthIn a volatile stock market, investors need new and safer ways to grow their wealth. Make Money with Fixer-Uppers and Renovations shows investors, including beginners, how to buy at bargain prices and use market analysis techniques and creative improvements to add thousands of dollars to the value of their properties. This step-by-step guide covers all the fundamentals, including how to 'fix and flip' properties, evaluate competitive properties, locate great properties at great prices, enhance space, raise cash, and learn about lease options.Gary W. Eldred, PhD (Gainesville, FL) is a realtor who has served on the graduate business faculty at Stanford University and the University of Illinois. He is also the coauthor of Investing in Real Estate, Fourth Edition (0-471-32339-X) and author of Yes! You Can Own the Home You Want (0-471-09978-3) and The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make (and How to Avoid Them) (0-471-12658-6), all published by Wiley.

What No One Ever Tells You About Renovating Your Home

Author and newspaper columnist Alan Heavens has made a career of sharing his own renovation mistakes on three older properties in his 15 years' worth of columns, while exchanging information, insights, and remodeling concerns with his millions of readers each week.