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Our Pearl of Great Price
By admin on Mar 29, 2009 | In Announcements
Link: http://EyeOnEnglewood.com
We decided to sell our precious historic home on Acoma Street in order to afford the home on Pearl, our “pearl of great price.”
We joked that it was a “pearl of a house" on a "pearl of a street”... or, it soon would be.
Lessons learned, we designed a home that would allow each member of our family (usually students) to have their own restroom, a study nook and an extra mini-kitchen in the extra den.
We utilized the buffer of our bank's Construction Loan department which acted like a trust in dispensing funds only after inspections and work was completed.
This way, there could be no funny pre-pay business like our last contractor had pulled.
Surprisingly, the City of Englewood agreed to accept our hand-drawn plans if the foundation and roof designs were drawn by a structural architect.
Over the years, we had admired the work of Welch Construction, in Englewood, and entered into a contract with Mr. Welch to have the house finished by mid-August, in time for students to occupy it for the fall semester.
