HeyJaredYour Home Building Coach with Bill Reid
I'm Bill Reid and I will be along your side as Your Home Building Coach. Brought to you by The Awakened Homeowner Mission— your go-to podcast for real talk about designing, remodeling, and building your dream home!
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The Approval Process Nobody Explains: Planning vs Building (opens the original)
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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. I
Does Remodeling Increase Property Taxes? The 2 Lines That Decide (opens the original)
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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
Home Renovation Return on Investment: 3 Returns Nobody Tells You (opens the original)
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Download the FREE Three Returns Worksheet Call in and leave a question or topic you would like covered! 530-289-6368 Everybody 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
How to Find a Contractor Without Getting Sold (opens the original)
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Get Your Free Team Sourcing Tracker How 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 contr
Owner's Representative Explained: When You May Need an Advocate on Your Side (opens the original)
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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 pat
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