Optimism, Redux
People sometimes say you have to be mad to want to build your own house. Such thoughts are often uttered, with exasperation, just when things are going terribly wrong. Well, now it’s our turn to emote.
We hired our general contractor way back in September of last year. Since then we have been working on finalizing the design with him. We say “working”, but it would more accurately be described as “waiting”. Waiting for information, waiting for construction details, waiting for answers.
There wasn’t that much we were asking our contractor to do, but after four months we could wait no longer. So we fired his non-delivering ass!
Where does that leave us now? With someone new of course. Granted, this will set us back another couple of months as we re-introduce the project to our “new guy”, wait for a build estimate and work to finish the final drawing set. But hey, it feels good to be moving forward again.
We are, lest we jinx ourselves, finally optimistic ground will soon be broken.
