Ran into something similar when we finished our build last year. We put serious cash into solar panels and upgraded insulation, thinking it'd boost ap...

Calendar alerts definitely help keep you on your toes. I've been debating using a spreadsheet to track each payment milestone—anyone tried this route,...

Totally agree on the 20% buffer—especially with older properties. When we built our custom home, I thought I had accounted for everything, but unexpec...

Same here, tried a few apps but they felt too structured and limited. A spreadsheet lets me quickly tweak things as payments or unexpected costs pop u...

I get what you're saying about chrome sometimes feeling a bit sterile. When we were choosing fixtures for our custom build, I initially leaned toward ...

You're spot on about references not always telling the whole story. When I hired my electrician, his references were glowing, but turns out he'd never...

We had a similar issue last year—ended up discovering that our application was stuck because one document wasn't clearly labeled. Once we clarified an...