So, I don’t know if you remember or anything, but WAY back when (like, maybe a year ago even, I have no idea because I can’t even find the post where I talked about it), I was going to be working on a project in SF for my brother. I was SUPER excited. It was a 2 bedroom condo down to the studs that my dad and I were going to organize the work for. It was way too much work for me, Chris and my dad to handle, so my dad and I were basically going to act as GC’s and manage all the work that would be going on.
Well, you might wonder why I never talked about it again…
That’s because the project went insane. I don’t want to go into too many crazy details because I don’t want to identify the property or events too much, but the past owner was INSANE. Like, certifiable CRAZY TOWN. Without going into too much detail the events that led me to not talk about things for a year while things got sorted out involved 1 police calls to the location, one crazy person locking themselves inside, one physical threat, tools stolen, 3 times a locksmith needed to be called, a chainsaw to saw a door open, and a court order keeping crazy pants away. Yes, I told you, INSANE. It was quite the adventure and after I wasn’t scared after a particularly eventful day, we all just had to laugh at the situation. It was from a movie or something.
Anyways, now that project is back on. A contractor was working on it while my brother was thinking about selling it to someone, but things didn’t work out super great, so we had to let the contractor go. It took several months to just get drywall up. But now we’re ready to get going again. I met with a contractor out there this morning and am meeting with another one tomorrow morning. We don’t really want to be at the jobsite too much, so I’ll hand the work off to a GC we feel comfortable with and I’ll go periodically to check on things. I’ll make sure the quality is good (it’s in a great neighborhood, so we want to make sure it’s done right) and that the design is going in the right direction (I’ve made most of the picks for things, but there are always other things that come up along the way).
A year ago things were looking like this

John @ AZ DIY Guy says
Looks cool, but I'm hoping we'll get more stories about all the craziness. You gotta love crazy people on the project site. Please tell me you got a photo of the chain sawing incident!
Sarah @ St. Paul Haus says
Omg i love it all! And yes more crazy person stories!
Sarah @ St. Paul Haus says
Omg i love it all! And yes more crazy person stories!
rosedel says
I've been wondering what happened with this project. I'm lookin gforward to seeing more.