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Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid

William W. 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! 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

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34:06

ProQuest: Connecting Homeowners with Design & Build Pros

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/10/03

ProQuest is the final module in BuildQuest's planning platform. By the time a homeowner reaches ProQuest, they have completed ProjectProfile, built vision boards in VisionSpec, and worked through their budget in CostCompass. ProQuest lets them share all of that work with architects, designers, and contractors in one organized project brief.This episode walks through ProQuest from both perspectives. Bill Reid explains how homeowners search for professionals, what goes into the project brief, and how

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36:24

buildquest Revealed: The Planning Platform Behind the...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/09/26

WHY HOMEOWNERS AND PROFESSIONALS BOTH LOSEHomeowners walk into design showrooms confused. They don't know where to start, who to hire first, or what a realistic budget looks like. They fill out online forms from lead services thinking they're getting help. Instead they get calls from contractors chasing paid leads with no idea if the project is realistic.Professionals pay for those leads and spend hours following up with homeowners who have no focus, no budget, and often no idea what questions to

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40:01

How Much Does a Building Permit Cost? The Real Number

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/09/20

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

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36:50

What Does a Building Department Do?

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/09/12

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

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36:14

The Approval Process Nobody Explains: Planning vs...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/09/05

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

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39:41

Does Remodeling Increase Property Taxes? The 2 Lines...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/08/29

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

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40:19

Home Renovation Return on Investment: 3 Returns...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/08/22

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

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45:03

How to Find a Contractor Without Getting Sold

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/08/15

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

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37:56

Owner's Representative Explained: When You May Need...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/08/08

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

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34:46

Becoming an Owner Builder: The Jobs, Liability & Real...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/08/01

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

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34:53

Mechanics Liens: What Homeowners Must Know Before Paying

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/07/25

Mechanics liens can attach to your home even when you paid your contractor on time for every single draw. A lumber yard you never spoke to, a truss manufacturer you never hired, can file a legal claim against your property if your general contractor didn't settle their account. You can do everything right, pay every invoice early, keep perfect records, and still receive a certified letter nine months after your project wraps saying there's a claim against your house.GET YOUR FREE LIEN PROTECTION

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43:13

Budget Checkpoints: How to Control Costs During Home...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/07/18

Most homeowners don't find out how to control costs during home design until it's too late—usually after the plans are drawn, the checks are cashed, and the project comes back three or four times higher than the number in their head. The fix isn't a bigger budget. It's two simple pause points that most people skip right past.In this episode, Bill Reid walks you through the home design process the way architecture and interior design firms actually run it: three stepping stones across the

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43:24

How to Create a Home Renovation Budget Without Guessing

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/07/11

Most homeowners approach the budget question with guesses, Facebook advice, or numbers they heard from a neighbor. Bill Reid — residential construction expert with 35+ years of experience — reveals why the budget question is almost impossible to answer before design begins, and exactly how to answer it anyway.You'll learn the difference between an investment goal and a construction budget, the three-part framework (new square footage, existing square footage, scope of work) that prevents cost

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31:12

Homeowner Insurance During Renovation: The Gaps...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/07/04

Your homeowner insurance during renovation can quietly stop protecting you precisely when your home is most exposed. Standard policies are built for homes you live in, not construction sites, and the language that creates gaps sits inside the policy waiting for a renovation to trigger it. This episode reveals the four specific places those gaps open, introduces the specialized coverage built for homes under construction, and gives you the simple phone calls that close every gap before your project

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31:58

Contractor Insurance Requirements That Protect Your...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/06/27

Contractor insurance requirements protect you from the financial catastrophe most homeowners never see coming: when a worker gets hurt on your property and there's no valid insurance coverage to catch it. Those six-figure medical bills and lost wages don't disappear. They land on whoever forgot to check. And under premises liability law, that person can be you.GET YOUR FREE INSURANCE PROTECTION CHECKLISTBill Reid walks you through the two insurance policies that stand between you and disaster —

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31:25

Cash Discount Construction Scams: The Real Cost...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/06/20

Cash discount construction scams destroy homeowners every year — and the offer always feels like a gift. Your contractor leans in at the kitchen table and says if you pay cash, he can take 10% off the whole job. On a $130,000 kitchen remodel, that's $13,000. Your brain lights up. But that discount isn't coming out of thin air. It's coming out of something the contractor just decided he's no longer going to pay for.GET YOUR CASH-TRAP PROTECTION CHECKLIST FOR FREEWHAT YOU'LL DISCOVERBill Reid breaks

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40:04

Construction Schedule: Control Timeline & Budget

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/06/13

Construction schedule mistakes are one of the most common reasons projects finish late and run over budget. Most homeowners never see a real construction schedule before they sign a contract—and that missing document ends up costing them thousands in delays, rushed decisions, and money that runs ahead of completed work.GET YOUR CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE CHECKLIST FOR FREE!In this episode, Bill Reid explains why the construction schedule is the keystone of your entire construction contract. It is not

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26:58

Change Orders: The $15K Surprise & How to Stop It

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/06/06

Get Your Change Order Tracker Tool - For FREE!Change orders start more arguments on job sites than anything else. You're three weeks into your remodel when the contractor mentions an extra $15,000 for work you thought was included. Bill Reid explains the critical distinction most contracts ignore: change orders versus extra work orders. A change order is something already in your plans that you changed. An extra work order is brand new work never in the original scope. The number one source of both

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25:09

Construction Contract Basics: What to Check Before...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/05/30

That construction contract sitting on your kitchen table is the single most important document in your entire project. You've earned your way to this moment—months in design, weeks comparing bids, careful contractor selection. Now there's just one piece of paper between you and breaking ground. After 35+ years as a residential construction expert, Bill Reid has seen what goes wrong when homeowners treat this signing moment as a formality instead of the protection it's meant to be.WHAT YOU'LL

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39:01

Fixed Price Contracting: 4 Components That Decide...

Your Home Building Coach with Bill Reid ·

2026/05/23

Fixed Price Contracting: The Well-Marked Trail to Construction CertaintyThis is the fourth and final episode of the Contracting Methods series. If you've been following along since Episode 55, you now have a complete education in the two primary ways residential construction gets contracted—cost plus and fixed price. Today we're walking the fixed price path from proposal to punch list.Get Your Fixed Price Readiness Tool Today for FreeWhat Fixed Price Actually MeansFixed price contracting means one

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