http://www.thefinancejourney.com/real-estate/finishing-the-basement-part-1-planning/ The financial journey of a 20 something computer analyst living in upstate New York. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:32:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.thefinancejourney.com/real-estate/finishing-the-basement-part-1-planning/comment-page-1/#comment-3072 The Finance Journey » Finishing The Basement - Part 2 - Completion Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:01:41 +0000 http://www.thefinancejourney.com/real-estate/finishing-the-basement-part-1-planning/#comment-3072 [...] In the first part of the series I talked about budget and time line. Well I blew both of those. I originally wanted to get the project done before Thanksgiving but it took me almost until Christmas to complete. Granted I wasn’t in a big rush so I took my time with some things, but there were a few things that took a lot longer than expected. One was drywall - its not so much effort consuming, but you put on a layer, then wait a day for it to dry, repeat… repeat… repeat. Then my fiance decided she wanted some of the imperfections in the wall fixed that were done by the previous owner so that ate up more precious time. [...] [...] In the first part of the series I talked about budget and time line. Well I blew both of those. I originally wanted to get the project done before Thanksgiving but it took me almost until Christmas to complete. Granted I wasn’t in a big rush so I took my time with some things, but there were a few things that took a lot longer than expected. One was drywall – its not so much effort consuming, but you put on a layer, then wait a day for it to dry, repeat… repeat… repeat. Then my fiance decided she wanted some of the imperfections in the wall fixed that were done by the previous owner so that ate up more precious time. [...]

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