think about her anxiety-laden husband...  

Think of it like a business - if you owned a hardware store, and some guy called you at home at 2 in the morning with a request for you to come open the door so he could look around the shelves to see if he wanted to buy something from you, or from Lowes, you would say no, come back during normal business hours.

The follow up to this was I got bids and they came in around $18,000 not $15,000 so I decided to shelve the project and think of it in a different way. 

I have stuck them up on shelves in Wal-Mart and on gas pumps and various other places.

Located in a great neighborhood, formal DR, family room, built-in shelving, laundry closet & lrg eat-in kitchen w/ plenty of cabinet space.The home was once a rental, then individual family purchased it, they were foreclosed on, and the home sat empty for over 1 year.I have made some modifications to the home since I purchased with the help of family:  installed 2 new ceiling fans in the bedrooms, replaced 2 interior door knobs, replaced all outlets with 3 prong grounded, rewired the living room and hung double ceiling fans as there was not lighting other than lamp plugged into outlet, painted the dining room and kitchen, installed a dish washer, some small landscaping projects around the home, had ancient HVAC system serviced,  but much more needs to be done.  

Making lemonade out of lemons is probably one of the best adages I can think of for learning to be creative and solving problems in real estateif there is a problem with a property or dimension issues you dont always have to go to a contractor to solve the problemcontractors have a certain mindsetand are operating on a specific paradaigmhere are some solutions I have done in the past that have really worked and paid dividendsi had an ejector pump in a bathroom and the space was covered by a makeshift door I decided to have a custom cabinet built that functioned as a trash receptacle and had shelves as well now the unsightly space is home to a beautiful custom cabinet that can be easily removed for servicing the pump when it needs it problem two I bought a house that had front of the shower enclosure removedrather than buy another shower enclosure cost 500.ooi opted to replace the front wall with backer board and tile the front and ended up with a beautiful custom look cost was cheaper than replacing shower enclosure and the look is twice as good problem threewhen i bought my house there was a hole knocked out one of the walls about the size of a  door i suppose thieves came in from the crawl space into this part of the house when it was vacantrather than close in the spacei enlarged the crawls space door poured a concrete floor and created a second exterior doorway to the space making the downstairs ready to become a legal apartment. 

Haha - your question is akin to you coming into a huge library, with book-shelves full of books everywhere, and sayin - so, how do I learn to read...I don't wanna learn the alphabet and all that...?!

Any surface that a child could conceivably get it's mouth around can not be made intact (painted), this includes anything that sticks out more then 1/2 inch like stair treads, railings, balusters, columns, shelves, shelf supports, counters, fireplace mantles, window sills, baseboards, pipes, door/window casings, and pretty much everything else that could stick off your wall.

We ended up getting two bedrooms for the kids with walk in closets, a nice bathroom with double sinks and tiled shower/bath for the kids, an 88 sq ft laundry room, a 160 sq ft office with build-in shelves, a family/media room, and a large master suite (500-600 sq ft) including custom closet built-ins, double sinks, double shower heads.  

I am no pro, but the webinar I just sat and half listened to was so heavily laden with marketing, leading, and attempting to pull on negative emotions that I almost cant believe its worth it, simply on how they are attempting to market it.