Quote Originally Posted by papaver View Post
My experience. What ever you do: building or remodelling a house... it's always more expensive than you intended. We first bought a house and redid it ourselves (that took 8! years), and the day we were finished we sold it. Now we have built a new house, and boy was that an experience! i would never do it again. Ever.

This reminds me: everyone, right now, go out and rent "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House."