“Reading is a mental process. Letters become words. Words become phrases. Phrases become sentences. Sentences create books.”
The idea of “house reading” comes from Michael Pollan’s second book, “A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams”. I wrote about his first book “Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education” a few weeks ago. While reading is usually associated with the written text, let’s not forget lip reading, palm reading and map reading!
Mr. Pollan used to live in a town in New England where he and his wife owned a small house on 5 acres of land. They were expecting their first child; and he realized that he needed more space to enable him to continue his writing career. He decided to build a hut with his own hands, without having any skills or dexterity for such a project. The book is a beautiful account of his experience. Like in his first book about gardening, he goes into minute details describing not only the physical, but the mental process he went through to realize his idea. In the process, he worked with an architect who suggested the idea that building a house is similar to reading a book. You start at the beginning and page by page, you learn the narrative as well as identity—yourself, with the process and the subject, by emerging into the process. I think this idea applies to many other endeavors in our lives as well.
Every new project starts with an idea. For instance, you come across a piece of land, a tear-down building, and then you want to build your dream house. But do you know what it takes to do that? “A Place of My Own” will help in many ways. One of the critical aspects of building a house is the cost analysis, or simply put, figuring out how much money one needs to realize their dream and avoiding the nightmare of running short on funds before the project is completed. In my work, I deal with these problems with my clients all of the time.
But sooner or later, you will need money to pay for everything: land, design, permits, construction, and a myriad of other things that you cannot even imagine at the beginning of your new “book”. There is a reason why so many projects big and small run into trouble during the construction process. Can those problems be prevented? Not necessarily, but they can be reduced. Start your project with the end in mind, but at the same time count every penny it will take to get to the end. If you have an idea, desire, project, or anything else that requires “Tailored Mortgage Solutions”, I might be able to assist you. But please call me before you start anything. I promise you will have a much better night’s sleep as a result.
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Before becoming a builder, Mr. Pollan was a reader. In his book, he quotes many writers who wrote about architecture. If you want to know about mortgages, read my two books, “The Mortgage Game: The 5 C’s and How To Connect Them” and “Mortgage Solutions For Smart People: 5 Easy Way to Get Your Loan Approved”. Or read anything for fun and education like these people whom I’ve met throughout my travels.
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