Gottfried Green

I somehow fell out of posting because a few of my potential worries came into fruition. One was the final budget from the contractor would come in above our 300k mark. It may seem unrealistic to expect things to stay within budget but at this point they have to... we've already spent/wasted money for 2 designs we couldn't use. As these things go, the budget did come in over and so I passed it over to Mr. Gottfried because if the budget couldn't be reduced I wasn't going to build the house. We are stuck in a bit of an issue with the market value of our total project- land and building. We have to stay in check with the current market down here to some degree. In order to do this we've cut out a lot of extras that we can do at anytime at our own expense and labor. We did oversee the gut renovation of a 150 year old townhouse in Brooklyn, NY. I think we can put up some shelves and also, we are going to do the interior painting. I picked up this book at the thrift store published in 1961 about how to build a high-quality house at low cost as some sort of validation about the process of getting all the ducks in a row. I think the most expensive house budget in the book was around 35k.

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