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Building a House? Five Lessons we Learned the Hard Way

Posted on January 31, 2019February 8, 2020 by GentleRager

For the record, we aren’t risk-takers. We never intended to build a house—ever!  However, living our retirement years in the home we had grown to love over 25 years posed some problems.  Two flights of stairs and an overwhelming accumulation of “stuff” were issues we needed to address sooner rather than later. Eighteen months later…

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