You can get around that if you have a diy wife and kids that aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty and pick up a paint brush or swing a hammer 

If you were to install check valve on your sewage line (to prevent back up from the street) would you go with plastic one or more expensive cast iron one ?

There was no furniture whatsoever, so I have now constructed and installed the kitchen and apartment furniture.

Tomorrow we'll be working on prepping old used upper cabinets to install in a rental we're refurbing.

I had to beg to get him to install a couple of fixtures and would have been better off firing him and hiring someone else because he was chasing that next check to pay TODAYS bills even though he still was supposed to do yesterday’s work.

You should be finishing your house out with amenities that are comparable to the neighborhood (houses have granite countertops then you install granite countertops, etc.).

We had just over $25k in each of them by the time I had them moved, blocked/underpinned, installed septic, water, etc.

You install them on the cold feed to the water heater.   

I was quoted $2.50 sq/ft for their lower end trafficmaster material and install.

You can get new windows installed (labor and materials) for around $250 - $300 per window.