Inspection Day, April 1998 In January 1999, I said goodbye to my downtown Manhattan loft and moved into an old row house in Brooklyn, NY. I was about to embark on a complete house renovation, mostly using my own two hands and construction knowledge I’d learned from years of apartment and loft rehabs. While I got the house at a terrific price, it took almost a year to close the deal. Sellers were dying, powers of attorney were dying, people were falling off roofs and my mortgage commitment