Real Estate Corner: Being a better builder

I feel very fortunate to have built my own house. I sort of regret selling it because there's nothing quite like living in a home that you worked so hard to create. Of course I had an actual "builder" and some other contractors doing all the "real" work. But laying the flooring, pulling the wiring, sanding exposed beams, building frames for the basement windows, painting, and all those other "smaller" tasks are not nothing It provided a huge sense of happiness and pride to walk up those stairs every day and enjoy the fruits of my labor.

As I mentioned before, we're doing some remodeling in the basement of this existing house. Well, not just the basement, but that's where "Tyler" our contractor is spending most of his time these days. I've taken to "living" in my noise-canceling headphones. He has stripped a wall of its ugly built-in shelves and is building a whole new cabinet/shelving thing to replace it. It's going to be awesome.