I currently live in a place referred to as “Triburbia” a nickname coined after 9/11 , but better known as Tribeca in downtown NYC. I am not sure what I was thinking when I purchased my 10th floor apartment in a 35 story luxury building, but it turns out, at least to me, to be more like living in a “vertical gated community”. It was time for a change, but what, where, was it time to sell again? This is my fourth major real estate buy/sell in less than 10 years? Where have I gone wrong? What can I learn from those projects that would insure I construct a place from scratch that would serve as my home for a long time to come?
Build a house, now that’s scary. I have lived through contractor hell, during many gut renovations over the years, all kinds of quality problems, cost overruns and missed deadlines and did I mention the LIES?How could I build a cool green flexible house and minimize the cost, insure quality and address the time concerns? Could I do something to reduce the carbon footprint of this home by utilizing new designs, materials, and processes? But wouldn’t that further exacerbate the contractor issues? Round and round I went and then I remembered an issue of Dwell magazine called the “Prefab Issue”. That was were it all started.
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