![How Do We Determine the Value of Things? [Musings]](https://juliansarokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/markus-winkler-IrRbSND5EUc-unsplash.jpg)
What is Value? How do we determine the value of things? If you cant answer this question, then you cant say what’s a good price or bad price for anything. This makes investing hard as you dont know what stocks to buy, what real estate…
![Changes to Allow for More Content Creation! [Unfinished Essays / Musings]](https://juliansarokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/header-34.jpeg)
So, time for me is becoming something I have less and less of. I have lots of thoughts that I write down, but I dont have time to polish them into cohesive essays. In order to keep producing content, i’m going to post the raw…
![Demolition Begins – [Part 5]](https://juliansarokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_1024-preview-e1634143530324.jpg)
Today we started the first major part of our demolition – pretty simple process just 1 machine and 1 person controlling the machine to knock all the walls down, and a second truck to haul the materials away to the recycling facility. Knocking down the…
![Excavator Came Before Permits – Waste of Money [Part 4]](https://juliansarokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_3511_2-e1632942432497.jpg)
We scheduled an excavator on the 17th expecting the city to approve our permits by at least the 29th, and the permits are still not approved. We were told that there was one pending payment, but the issue is the city wont tell us WHAT that pending payment…
![We Broke the Water Shutoff Valve – [Part 3]](https://juliansarokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Pic1-e1632939915230.jpg)
So today we broke the water shut-off valve – turns out we’re not supposed to do that ourselves, the city is supposed to turn it off for us. We had a plumber come out to help us turn off the main water line and add a spout on-site for…
![Interior Demolition – Doors and Cabinets [Part 2]](https://juliansarokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Interior-Demo-e1632939369959.jpg)
The first step in our demo process was to get rid of the doors, and cabinets, closets, etc. This took 2-3 days and is usually the slowest part of demolition because its done manually. At the same time we had someone come pickup the appliances that were leftover at…
![New House Construction [Part 1] – Intro](https://juliansarokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_5071-4.jpg)
In this series I’m going to bring you along with me as I build my first house from the ground up. This is mostly going to be a series outlining the problems faced during each step rather than when we do something correctly, as that’s pretty…
![America 2.0 – Public Safety [Part IV]](https://juliansarokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/maxresdefault4.jpeg)
