Well, they had strategically left pillars of dirt here and there, reinforced by the occasional brick, pier block or 2x4 to "support" the house.

This will help clarify and reinforce what you are reading.

@Derek Tellier, just reinforcing what others had said: don’t touch your 401K right now and continue to contribute up to the employer match.

Just to reinforce my point if you would have hired a licensed GC he would have pull permits under his licensed and the Agency having jurisdiction over your project would have not classified your project as an owner self-performing project.

This will clarify and reinforce what you are reading.

This will clarify and reinforce what you are reading.

This will clarify and reinforce what you are reading.

You probably won’t know the first time and it’s going to change as you keep moving forward, but visualizing and having goals is something you have to practice and reinforce into your daily tasks.

Basically what happens is many rookie investors don't think that "They can make it happen"....meaning they don't have many expectations of what they can do====>When they have low expectations, they don't put forth much effort===>When they don't put forth much effort, they don't get results ==> When they don't get good results==>It reinforces their beliefs that "They can't make it happen" =======>Next time around they have even lower expectations==:>Meaning lower effort==>meaning lower results===Meaning more reinforcement that "they can't make it happen" the ugly cycle continues....

This will clarify and reinforce what you are reading.