A builder watched Home Depot plywood prices double daily during a lumber shortage, jumping from $8 to $24 per sheet. Houses he'd already finished sold for $900,000 instead of the planned $400,000.
The lumber crisis happened. One day I walked into Home Depot, and plywood was $8 a sheet. Next day I walked in, was 16. The second, third day, I walked in and went to 24. I said, all right, I'm done building houses for now. And so that's what we did. We went on pause, and the houses we planned to sell for $400,000 sold for $900,000 after we. After we built them, because we already had the lumber. I'd already bought it and built it, kind of like what happened with the tar paper. And I started seeing a pattern and a trend, and that's what nursing gave me, was the ability to see these things happen.
