Before you drive that first nail, this is the guide you need--thousands of hints, tips, and professional tricks of the trade

Authoritative, detailed, and fully illustrated, Rules of Thumb for Home Building, Improvement, and Repair gives you all the inside information you need to make your home improvement project go faster and easier. For this all-in-one volume, do-it-yourself experts Gene and Katie Hamilton, founders of the online service HouseNet, have distilled the best professional home repair and remodeling information.

Rules of Thumb will help you avoid the...

Repair, remodel, resell-and get your top investment dollar

The current real estate market is ripe for rehabbing. Based on decades of successful flipping experience, this Revised and Expanded edition of the real estate classic Fix It and Flip It will help you buy the right property at the right price and use professional estimating tools to plan the project and control costs. Katie and Gene Hamilton also include

• Worksheets and checklists to evaluate, coordinate, and supervise the job
• New strategies for down markets, including how to use renting as a...