Again, perfect timing because it appears that we sold our home at the peak of the real estate bubble
I can hardly believe that we actually built our own house. When I say we, I mean me, my wife and a general contractor. But my wife and I spent lots of time inside the central air conditioning of our old house designing our home. This was the one time that we were going to go for it and we wanted it to be perfect. To that end, we started working on what we wanted some five years ago. It actually all timed out pretty amazingly. Once we had finalized our design and turned it over to an architect, things just sort of started happening. First, the old HVAC unit finally gave up the ghost. That thing had been providing essential heating and cooling to our family for the better part of 25 years. There were babies born and raised to adulthood while that heating and cooling equipment was on the job. And thanks to a combination of good design, reliability and consistent, seasonal HVAC maintenance, we got almost a quarter of a century out of that thing. So once the new residential HVAC was installed, there wasn’t much keeping us from listing the house. Again, perfect timing because it appears that we sold our home at the peak of the real estate bubble. And with all the money we made from it, we were able to upgrade the new HVAC to a geothermal heat pump. This sort of HVAC technology is a bit pricey on the front end but comes with such staggering operational efficiency that it will be saving us money for the next 30 or 40 years.
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