I’m for sure starting this year out breathing much easier than when I started 2021 and 2022.
- Those two years were definitely an enormous challenge for us financially.
We almost got close to having to sell our home. That’s when things get very real. My wife lost her job due to the pandemic and then I had to take a big pay cut in order to work from home inside the central air conditioning of my house. This was pretty catastrophic and we did our best to hang on. But my wife had such a hard time finding other employment that we had to lean heavily on our savings just to pay the mortgage. Once I got back inside the zone controlled HVAC of the office, it helped. But still, my wife couldn’t get anything more than a few online gigs. So we ended up having to really get down to brass tacks and figure out whether we needed to sell the house. Thankfully, my wife is really smart and came up with a plan to rent out the basement. Our house has a finished basement that just needed a bit more work to turn it into a nice, one bedroom apartment. We were able to do much of the work ourselves. But when it came to the plumbing and the HVAC, we turned to the professionals. It didn’t take much for a plumber to finish off the bathroom by adding a shower. And the HVAC company solved the heating and cooling comfort situation with a ductless heat pump. That ductless heat pump really does provide some amazing quality heating and air to that space. We were able to find a renter no problem as we live in a college town. So adding a ductless heat pump helped save our home.