This blog post has been rattling around a couple of weeks. If I were writing a book, this one topic would be an entire chapter. As such, I’ll try to break it into a few parts.
“Conformity” has to do with the huge chasm between cookie-cutter homes and architecture and “everything else”. I use [...]

In part 1 I described the “joy” of getting finance for my farmhouse / shop project. Next came the challenges of actually closing on that financing.
The commercial lending department needed an appraisal on the construction project. Since it was new construction the apraisal would bve based on plans, specs, and quotes along [...]