EngCanMan

Umm, I encourage you to do that math a little closer. A contractor would have to;

Come to your house to quote, and only land 1/4 quotes maybe.

Schedule the workers

Order the equipment.

Get an electrical permit.

Pay for the truck and all the tools.

Insurance for the company and trucks.

Advertising costs

Warranty and callbacks

I can assure you that this is not the get rich quick scheme you may think it is.

The reality is that this is all solving a problem that people don’t have.

Forced air is a terrible way to heat a building yet thats how most homes are heated, and it is good enough for most people.

If you perfectly size a furnace for the coldest days of the year, it is now oversized for the other 90% of days.

The cheapest way is to install a multi stage heating/cooling system that works on first stage most of the time, and second when it needs to, like having 2 small furnaces. This passes the ‘good enough’ test for the vast majority of homeowners.

The most surprising part of that story, when I read it, was that it was from 29 years ago.

The conflict of interest on a buyers real estate agent is crazy:

the person you are entrusting to get you the best value is compensated on the opposite.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. They could have easily invested their cash in whatever they chose, whereas a stock deal can be limiting.

No, I don't think you did...it would be 4000 API calls per month.

"An empty water bottle/adult diaper can become a luxury in the middle of the night to avoid putting on your clothes/shoes and exiting the van in the coldness"

You lost me when adult diapers became a luxury.

If I just killed 3, how would I update their census?

Still no internet at all? I have a suspicion that you found some…

I have a synology NAS specifically to backup my google workspace.

All construction projects use them, nobody has found a better way to show dependancies of the many many trades.

Right, but you said “the majority of the money is foreign”, now you just reiterated that “51% of the money is local”.