Rebo's Remodeling Rules: Remodel With Confidence & Authority. Over 200 Money-Saving, Chaos-Ending Insider Secrets from the Industry’s Top Remodel Advisor

Rebo’s Remodeling Rules — Rebo’s #1 no-fluff guide for homeowners who refuse to lose control of their remodel.

Most home remodels don’t fail because homeowners are careless — they fail because homeowners are uninformed. Contractors know this. And the remodeling industry quietly depends on it.

If you’re planning a remodel , kitchen remodel , bathroom remodel , or full home renovation , this book gives you the authority contractors don’t expect you to have.

Written by a veteran design-build insider with decades of real-world experience, Rebo’s Remodeling Rules exposes the costly blind spots, loopholes, and tactics that routinely drain budgets, derail schedules, and leave homeowners stuck paying for mistakes they didn’t cause.

This isn’t theory. It’s the hard truth about how remodels actually go wrong — and how informed homeowners stop problems before the first demo day.

Inside you’ll learn how to: Screen and hire contractors with confidence — not hope. Recognize bid padding, vague scopes, and red flags before signing. Control your remodel budget without sacrificing quality. Reduce delays, disputes, and expensive change orders. Protect your family, pets, and home during active construction. Strengthen contracts and eliminate common homeowner disadvantages. ABOUT REBO Rebo is an architectural engineer, inventor, and veteran of more than 50 years in building design, construction, and remodeling. He holds more than 40 patents and has authored building standards incorporated into the Uniform Fire Code.

His remodeling and home-improvement expertise has also been featured by Architect Today, Family Handyman, and Realtor.com .

His rules come from decades of real projects, real contractors, real budgets — and real lessons learned when things don’t go according to plan.

FOLLOW THE RULES IN ACTION Rebo is now putting his own system to the test during a 17-month whole-home renovation of his personal residence at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California.

The project is being documented from planning and product selection through construction, problems, solutions, and the final reveal — showing how the rules in this book work on a real remodel from beginning to end.

In remodeling, you either take control — or you get taken for a ride.

“I’ve got your back.” — Rebo Knox