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I'm Bill Reid and I will be along your side as Your Home Building Coach. Hosted by Bill Reid, who's helped coordinate the design and construction of hundreds of new homes and remodels, this show is packed with insider secrets and smart strategies to help you crush your home goals. Building or remodeling can feel like a wild ride — but it doesn't have to be a nightmare. Here, you’ll get expert home remodeling advice, practical new home construction tips, and a full scoop on building a custom home without losing your mind (or your budget). We’ll walk you through renovation planning, share step-by-step home remodeling guides for homeowners, and spill the tea on common home building mistakes and how to avoid them. Thinking about diving into a remodel or new build? Find out exactly what to know before starting a home renovation and how to navigate th
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- Yesterday40 min
How Much Does a Building Permit Cost? The Real Number
Building permit fees aren't calculated the way most homeowners assume. Your contract price doesn't set the fee. The city uses a valuation table — a published standard that estimates what a project like yours generally costs to build. If your stated number comes in below the table, they use their own number. Your permit fee runs off their valuation, not your negotiated price.WHAT THE PERMIT FEE ACTUALLY INCLUDESThe base building permit fee typically lands between 1 and 3 percent of project valuation. On a $180,000 project that's roughly $2,000 to $5,000. But the base permit is only the first line on the bill.Plan check fees cover the cost of five reviewers reading your drawings. This is a separate charge and it's not small. In many jurisdictions it runs more than half the base permit fee. In some it approaches or exceeds the permit fee itself.Trade permits for electrical, plumbing, and mechanical work are frequently permitted separately with their own fees. Sometimes they're bundled into the building permit, sometimes they're not. Ask specifically whether trade permits are included in the number you've been quoted or additional to it.Impact fees and capacity charges are tied to your project's effect on public systems. School district fees, water and sewer capacity charges, park or traffic fees, technology surcharges. These get triggered by adding square footage, adding bedrooms, or increasing the demand your house places on city systems. On a significant addition they can rival or exceed everything else on the bill combined.The school fee catches homeowners off guard. In many places adding habitable square footage triggers a per-square-foot fee paid to the local school district. You're not building a school. You're not sending anyone new to a school. It's assessed on the square footage and it's collected before your permit issues. It could be more than one school district collecting — the elementary district and the high school district both.TWO PAYMENTS NOT ONEIt's not one bill at one moment. You pay the plan check fee at submittal, up front, before anyone has reviewed anything. The rest of the permit fees come later when your permit is ready to be issued and you pick up your stamped plans. That second payment — the balance of the base permit, the trade permits, and every impact fee — lands together weeks or months after the first. That timing stalls projects. Not because homeowners can't ultimately afford it, but because the money was allocated somewhere else that week and nobody told them it was coming.Call your building department before you submit. Describe your project and ask what they use for valuation on a project like yours. Then ask them to walk you through the fee schedule. Ask what's due at submittal and what's due at permit issuance. Two numbers and two dates. It's public information and they'll tell you. One call converts a surprise into a line item.THE SIGNATURE THAT SHIFTS LIABILITY ONTO YOUEvery building permit has a responsible party — the person or entity whose name is on it, who signed the application, and who is accountable to the city for the work being done correctly and legally. That's normally your licensed contractor, and that's how it should work.But you can pull the permit yourself as the property owner. Most jurisdictions allow it. There's a specific declaration you sign to do it. When you sign it you become the owner-builder. There are legitimate reasons a homeowner does this — if you're genuinely doing the work yourself or genuinely acting as your own general contractor hiring licensed subs directly. That's not the situation worth worrying about.The situation worth worrying about is when you've hired a licensed contractor to build your project and somewhere in the process he asks you to pull the permit instead of him. The reasons offered always sound practical. It'll be faster. I'm backed up. It's simpler if it's in your name. What's being proposed is that you take on personally the responsibility your contractor is supposed to be carrying.The owner-builder declaration states in plain language that building permits are not required to be signed by property owners unless the owner is responsible for the construction and is not hiring a licensed contractor to assume that responsibility. The form is telling you that if you've hired a licensed contractor you shouldn't be the one signing. Many disclosures go further and state outright that you may protect yourself from potential financial risk by hiring a licensed contractor and having that permit filed in that contractor's name. That's a government form at the moment of signature advising you not to sign it.What you're actually taking on: you become the responsible party of record. The city's accountability for that work runs to you. You take on liability for injuries to workers on your property, and your homeowner's i
- 1 weeks ago36 min
What Does a Building Department Do?
What does a building department do with the plans you just spent nine months and a great deal of money producing? Almost nothing homeowners expect. It is not one office with one person making a decision about your project. It is a routing hub, and understanding how it routes is the difference between a homeowner who knows exactly where their project stands and one who spends three months refreshing an online portal wondering whether anybody is looking at it.Within about a day of your submittal, that twenty-pound stack on the counter stops being one thing. It gets split into piles and distributed to at least five separate reviewers: the building department's own plan checker, structural, public works, the fire department, and the planning department coming back for a second look at what it approved months earlier. Those reviewers sit in different offices, sometimes in different buildings, sometimes at an outside firm your city contracts the work to. They do not report to each other. They comment independently, in their own formats, against their own standards. And you will never meet a single one of them.In Episode 74 of Your Home Building Coach, Bill Reid opens the door on each of them. You will learn the department's actual mandate — one question, is it safe — and where building permit requirements genuinely come from: a national residential code refined over decades by people who study how buildings fail, adopted by your state and tuned to your community. Nobody at your city hall decided how far apart your floor joists should be. The code, as Bill puts it, is a written record of everything that has gone wrong in residential construction and what it took to stop it from going wrong again.Then comes the part that explains almost everything homeowners find frustrating about the building permit process. The five reviews do not run in sequence. They run at the same time, in five separate queues, with five different workloads. Your permit does not come back when the reviews are done — it comes back when the last review is done. Four reviewers can clear your project in nine days, and if fire is backed up or structural went to an outside firm with its own queue, those four finishing early bought you nothing at all.Bill also walks the trigger points, because most of the unpleasant surprises in permit review come from crossing a threshold nobody told you existed: a project classification that requires a fire sprinkler suppression system, a driveway length that demands specific turnarounds and pull-outs, a sewer lateral or curb cut that lands in public works territory and in nobody's early budget. Every one of those has a knowable answer during design, which is exactly when you want it.And you will get the single most useful phone call adjustment in this series. Stop asking whether your permit is ready; that question has one answer until the day it does not. Ask instead which departments have cleared and which are still outstanding. Same person on the other end of the line, radically different information, purely because you knew enough to ask a better question. The building department also does not finish with you at the counter — the same organization sends an inspector to your job site for the entire length of construction, which makes plan review the front half of a working relationship that will run the better part of a year.IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL DISCOVER:✓ The single question a building department is actually asking about your project — and why its narrow scope works in your favor✓ Why you stop being judged the moment planning approves your design, and what demonstrating compliance means in practice✓ Where the building code comes from: national foundation, state adoption, local amendment — and why that makes it knowable in advance✓ Who the five reviewers are and exactly what each one opens your plans looking for✓ Why a long list of plan check comments is almost never a rejection, and which review actually produces the hard questions✓ The fire department classification trigger that decides whether you need a sprinkler suppression system — and the water service upsizing that can come with it✓ Why fire access requirements for long driveways can reshape where your house sits on the lot✓ What public works cares about, and why sidewalk, curb, and sewer work is a budget risk more than a schedule risk✓ Why submitting to planning and building at the same time is the riskiest way to submit a project✓ The parallel review arithmetic: why your permit tracks the slowest reviewer, not the average one✓ A realistic building permit timeline — four to twelve weeks — and the two status questions that get you a real answer✓ What the inspection card is, and why you should keep it as long as you own the houseKEY TIMESTAMPS:00:00 — Introduction: What does a building department do with your pl
- 2 weeks ago36 min
The Approval Process Nobody Explains: Planning vs Building
Planning approval and building permits are two separate things. Most homeowners don't figure that out until they're months into the process.Use The Approvals Question Worksheet for free!Your city has two departments that both have to say yes. Planning asks what and where. Building asks how and safe. They run different clocks, apply different criteria, and come in a specific order. A planning approval is permission for the concept — not permission to build. Not every project touches planning. If you're redoing a kitchen without moving an exterior wall, you probably go straight to building. Same house, same city, completely different timeline. If you're in an HOA, that committee goes first. Their approval letter is part of what the city asks for. Before your design is locked, go make a pre-submittal visit to your planning department. That hour is the highest-return hour in your project. Whether your neighbors get a vote is a design decision you make at the table, months before anyone applies. This episode gives you the map before you need it. Worksheet in the show notes. Next episode: do I actually need a permit?ASK BILL A QUESTION - Call or text 530-289-6368Voicemails may be featured on a future episode, first name only. Let me know in your message if you'd prefer to stay off the air. Free Story: The Tale of Two Homeowners Watch: YouTube Listen: Podcast Read: AMAZON , All Book StoresVisit: Homepage Follow: Instagram: Facebook: Learn: BuildQuest Planning Platform: Contact: Email: wwreid@theawakenedhomeowner.comMentioned in this episode:The Awakened Homeowner BookThe Awakened Homeowner Book
- 3 weeks ago39 min
Does Remodeling Increase Property Taxes? The 2 Lines That Decide
Does remodeling increase your property taxes? The honest answer is sometimes—and almost never the way you're picturing it. In most places, a remodel by itself doesn't raise your taxes at all. Crossing a certain line does.This episode walks you through the two lines you can cross without knowing they were there. Line one is your city's classification threshold—whether your remodel is legally considered a new house. Line two is your county assessor's like-new test—whether they're adding value to your existing assessment or starting fresh on the whole building.You'll learn what cosmetic work generally doesn't touch your taxes, why down to the studs can be a reclassification event, how mass appraisal works and what your quality grade really means, what the annual number costs you over 20 years, and five questions with exact timing that can save you thousands.This is one of the largest costs in a project. It doesn't appear on anybody's bid. Ask before the drawings lock.Related episodes: Episode 62 (the cash trap), Episode 71 (the three returns).ASK BILL A QUESTION - Call or text 530-289-6368Voicemails may be featured on a future episode, first name only. Let me know in your message if you'd prefer to stay off the air. Free Story: The Tale of Two Homeowners Watch: YouTube Listen: Podcast Read: AMAZON , All Book StoresVisit: Homepage Follow: Instagram: Facebook: Learn: BuildQuest Planning Platform: Contact: Email: wwreid@theawakenedhomeowner.comMentioned in this episode:The Awakened Homeowner BookThe Awakened Homeowner Book
- 4 weeks ago40 min
Home Renovation Return on Investment: 3 Returns Nobody Tells You
Download the FREE Three Returns WorksheetCall in and leave a question or topic you would like covered!530-289-6368Everybody wants to know the home renovation return on investment before they build. Almost nobody knows what to do with the answer.Bill Reid, residential construction expert with 35+ years of experience, reveals why return on investment isn't one number — it's three. And until you separate them and rank them for your own life, every design decision in your project is going to be harder than it needs to be.WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVERThe three types of return that drive every home renovation project. Financial return is what the market gives you back at resale. Livability return is what you get from actually living in the improved house — years of mornings in a kitchen that works, space that fits your family instead of fighting it. Functional return is what problem the project solves: the failing roof, the parent moving in, the stairs that stopped working for someone in the house.Most homeowners mash all three into one undifferentiated feeling called worth it. That's the problem. You cannot rank what you haven't separated. And a construction project is nothing but trades. Every single decision from schematic design through the last punch list item is a trade. When the estimate comes back high and something has to give, people cut whatever is easiest to point at — whatever the last person mentioned, whatever hurts least in that meeting. They don't cut according to priority because they never built one.How financial return actually works — and why it isn't what most people think. An appraiser doesn't add up your receipts. They look at recent sales of similar homes near you, adjust for differences, and arrive at a number. They're measuring what the market pays for what you now have. And those numbers can be very far apart.Your neighborhood has a ceiling. There's a price band that buyers in your area have demonstrated with actual closed sales. As your project pushes your home toward the top of that band, each additional dollar converts into less and less value. Push past it, and the conversion stops almost entirely.The technical term appraisers use for overbuilding: super adequate improvement. A super adequate improvement is one that costs more than it contributes because it's more house than the market around it is willing to pay for. And here's the part that ought to stop you cold: super adequacy is classified as a form of functional obsolescence. That's a depreciation term.Knowing your ceiling doesn't tell you to stop at your ceiling. Plenty of people Bill has built for went right past it on purpose for reasons that had nothing to do with resale and everything to do with the life they were building. What knowing your ceiling actually does is tell you the price of your decision. That's the difference between being in the driver's seat and being a passenger.The five questions that give you a ranked priority list. How long are you staying? What problem are you actually solving? Where do you sit against your ceiling? What would you regret — both spending and not doing? And what can you fund comfortably, not just technically?Answer those five, and you have a ranked list: financial, livability, functional, in the order that's true for you. There is no wrong ranking. Someone who puts livability first and knowingly accepts a weaker financial return has not made a mistake. They've made a decision with information. The only bad version is the one where you never ranked them and the project ranked them for you by accident.How to use your ranked list to drive design from the front. Think about what happens in the design development stage — the second step in design where you're getting into details and making big decisions. You're in a meeting, there's a choice, two options, different costs, both defensible. Without a priority, that decision gets made on feel, on whoever spoke last. With a priority, you have a question you can ask out loud: which of these serves the return I ranked first?Why this analysis works before you even buy a property. Every one of these variables is knowable before you sign anything. What does this neighborhood support? What would this house be worth finished? What does the work cost? Bill has watched buyers walk away from properties because the math showed them the ceiling was too low for what they wanted to build. Better to find out in escrow than three years and a construction loan later.The five things you need on the table to do this well. What your property is worth today. What it would be worth when the project is finished. What your project is likely to cost — the whole cost, not just construction
- Aug 15, 202645 min
How to Find a Contractor Without Getting Sold
Get Your Free Team Sourcing TrackerHow to find a contractor without your phone number getting sold to eight builders at once. Bill Reid walks through the seven channels construction professionals actually use — referrals with four qualifying questions, neighborhood job site intelligence, supplier relationships at lumber yards and showrooms, job site conversations with subcontractors, public permit records, state licensing board verification, and industry association directories. Learn why contractor near me searches sell your contact to multiple builders simultaneously, what those leads actually cost contractors, and where that cost shows up in your bid. Discover the overlap strategy — the single strongest predictor of a smooth project is how well your architect and contractor already work together. Plus an inside look at BuildQuest ProQuest, the professional-matching module that surfaces relevant contractors and architects based on your actual project scope without selling your information. Episode 70 continues the four-part series on assembling your design and construction team. Episode 68 covered the owner-builder path, Episode 69 covered hiring a representative.0:00 Introduction — The contractor near me trap3:37 Where the top 500 firms actually get their work6:30 Why lead platforms sell your contact to multiple builders10:00 Designer first or contractor first — the overlap strategy15:31 Referrals — the four qualifying questions18:45 Neighborhood watch — monitoring job sites over six months21:45 Borrowing the industry's line of sight — lumber yards and suppliers24:30 The job site conversation with subcontractors27:51 The three public records doors31:00 Industry associations and a builder's own website34:29 BuildQuest ProQuest preview — project matching not search38:00 Closing recap and resourcesFree Story: The Tale of Two Homeowners Watch: YouTube Listen: Podcast Read: AMAZON , All Book StoresVisit: Homepage Follow: Instagram: Facebook: Learn: BuildQuest Planning Platform: Contact: Email: wwreid@theawakenedhomeowner.comMentioned in this episode:The Awakened Homeowner Book
- Aug 8, 202637 min
Owner's Representative Explained: When You May Need an Advocate on Your Side
An owner's representative is the professional you hire whose only client is you and whose only job is your project — not just design, not just construction, the whole thing on your behalf. This is the fourth path in Bill Reid's series on how to structure a custom home build or major remodel, and it's the one almost nobody explains to homeowners.This episode completes the four-path framework. Episode 42 covered the guided path (design-build under one roof). Episode 43 covered the self-guided path (architect and contractor separately, with you holding the connection). Episode 68 covered owner-builder (you become the contractor). Today is the opposite end of the spectrum — instead of doing more yourself, you hire someone to stand in your shoes.WHAT THIS PERSON IS AND IS NOTThe industry term is construction manager as agent, abbreviated CMA. Agent is the operative word — they're empowered to act on your behalf in a legal sense. They're an extension of you. The most experienced and objective person on your project, and the only one at the table with no dog in the fight.An owner's representative does NOT replace your contractor. You still hire a general contractor who builds your house. It does NOT replace your architect. You still need someone to design and stamp the plans. What an agent does is add a wrapper around all of it. Every player stays exactly where they are. The agent goes around the outside.This role has at least four names — owner's representative, owner's agent, construction manager as agent, and construction consultant. That confusion is part of why most homeowners never learn this option exists.WHO GENUINELY NEEDS ONEThe trigger is not net worth — it's distance. Three kinds of distance matter.Distance in miles. Your project is a significant distance from where you live — a second home, vacation property, the lot three states away. Construction runs on presence. Decisions get made on site in the moment by whoever's standing there. If you're not standing there, someone else is deciding for you based on what's easiest for them.Distance in time. You live twenty minutes from the site and you're just as far away as the person three states over because your schedule genuinely doesn't allow the time. Managing a significant project is a part-time job at minimum. The failure mode isn't dramatic — it's slow. A decision that needed an answer Tuesday getting one the following Monday, twenty times in a row.Distance in knowledge. You're on site, you have the time, and you still cannot tell whether what you're looking at is right. You cannot ask about the things you've never heard of. This is the distance that closes fastest with effort, and it's also the distance people most believe they've closed when they haven't.WHAT THEY DO ACROSS A WHOLE PROJECTBefore you own the land — walking the property with construction cost reality. Where are the utilities? What does it cost to bring power down that driveway? Where's the water? Are there easements, setbacks, height restrictions?During pre-design — getting your stream of ideas, goals, and objectives out of your head and structured into a document. Bill's hidden definition of expectation: accountability. You cannot hold anyone accountable to an expectation you never wrote down.During design — assembling a vetted design team (which can be ten different entities on a large project), surviving design review committees, and value engineering. Bill shares a real story where one question about a 40-foot glass wall saved a client over forty thousand dollars by adding a single six-by-six post instead of requiring massive steel beams.Scope documentation — the work breakdown structure, material selections, specifications, and the critical step most people skip: linking that specification to a human being. Sitting subcontractors down and walking them through it. Lack of information is one of the top causes of project failure.During construction — invoice and billing review, site presence, progress against schedule, quality checks, coordination between trades, catching problems in the two-day window where they're still cheap to fix, change order review (is it legitimate, is the price fair, whose fault was it), and close-out through the warranty period.Bill's observation from the contractor's chair: a competent agent makes a good builder's job easier. Decisions get made fast, information is complete, nobody's guessing. The builders who don't want an agent on the job are telling you something.THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THINGEverything rests on one word: independence. An owner's representative is valuable because they have no financial stake in what your project costs. They're the one person in the room who doesn't make more money when your project costs more money. That independence
- Aug 1, 202634 min
Becoming an Owner Builder: The Jobs, Liability & Real Savings
Most homeowners think becoming an owner builder means saving money by skipping the general contractor's overhead and profit. That's not what it is. What it actually is: the moment you sign at the permit counter, the building department treats you as the general contractor for that project. The liability you assume is comparable to that of a licensed GC—not similar, not a lighter version, but comparable.GET YOUR OWNER-BUILDER READINESS TOOL FREE!Bill Reid maps all four paths homeowners can take when assembling their team, then goes deep on the one that tempts almost everybody right after they see a bid number they didn't like.WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVERThe owner builder exemption exists in most jurisdictions, allowing property owners to build, improve, or repair their own property without holding a contractor's license. But it's not giving you a discount—it's giving you a job. You file a declaration, you sign an affidavit, and from that moment forward, the burden of compliance, coordination, and liability rests squarely on your shoulders.The eight distinct jobs that land on your desk: design coordination, material selection, specifications and scope documents, approval process management, consultant sourcing, subcontractor hiring, inspection coordination, and code compliance verification. That's not extra work on top of your project—that is the list of what a general contractor does. You didn't eliminate the work, you just stopped paying somebody to do it.What those eight jobs look like on a Tuesday: the framer calls at 6:40 AM because the lumber package is short. The inspector wants access at ten, and if you miss that window, you're waiting another three days. The plumber and electrician both scheduled themselves for the same day, and neither wants to go second. Your window supplier just moved a delivery date, cascading into your siding schedule. Every one of those is a decision that has to happen today, not this weekend when you have time.A real story about a simple window replacement: the homeowner called the building department, wrote a detailed scope of work, collected bids, and chose wisely. Then the lessons in accountability began. Four bedroom windows didn't meet egress requirements for modern code. Two bathroom windows needed tempered glass. Six windows had to be reordered, weeks of lead time were gone, and money was spent twice. There was nobody to call about the mistake—no contractor who owned it, no warranty claim, no back charge. That's what unfamiliar territory does to all of us, and it's not a character flaw. It's inevitable.The four exposures most homeowners never hear about at the permit counter: You may have just become an employer. If you pay an unlicensed individual to perform construction work, you're not their customer—you're their employer, which means if they get hurt, you're looking at medical bills and lost wages through your homeowner's insurance policy, which was never designed for that. Liens—subcontractors and suppliers who don't get paid on schedule can file a claim against your property, even if you never wrote them a check. On a normal project, your general contractor sits between you and that risk. As an owner builder, there's nobody in that seat. Insurance and financing—your homeowner's policy is written for an occupied home, not an active construction site. Builder's risk coverage exists as a separate product, and if you're financing, your lender will have requirements. What happens after—many jurisdictions put restrictions on a home built or renovated under an owner builder permit. Commonly it cannot be sold or leased for a period of time following final inspection.The honest math on savings: on the surface, skipping a general contractor's overhead and profit looks like pure savings. But those savings are only real if two things are true—you have strong existing relationships with subcontractors and suppliers, and you have the knowledge to avoid costly mistakes. If either one is missing, the savings evaporate. They get eaten by reorders, delays, rework, and subs who deprioritize you because you're a one-time customer and they have a builder who feeds them work all year long.Where the real savings actually come from: the most significant savings in owner builder projects almost never come from skipping the markup—they come from the homeowner doing the actual work with their own hands. Labor is a significant percentage of construction costs. If you're not personally swinging a hammer on this project, the savings you're imagining are probably not there.The four markers that tell you whether this path actually fits: You're in the construction trades—not adjacent to them, in them. You have plenty of experience with past projects—not one bathroom, but a
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About Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid
I'm Bill Reid and I will be along your side as Your Home Building Coach. Hosted by Bill Reid, who's helped coordinate the design and construction of hundreds of new homes and remodels, this show is packed with insider secrets and smart strategies to help you crush your home goals. Building or remodeling can feel like a wild ride — but it doesn't have to be a nightmare. Here, you’ll get expert home remodeling advice, practical new home construction tips, and a full scoop on building a custom home without losing your mind (or your budget). We’ll walk you through renovation planning, share step-by-step home remodeling guides for homeowners, and spill the tea on common home building mistakes and how to avoid them. Thinking about diving into a remodel or new build? Find out exactly what to know before starting a home renovation and how to navigate th
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