Housing

[glatt]

Around here, everyone is having work done on their houses. They are all sitting at home, but they are still working remotely and have the same income, so when they see that project they need doing, they pick up the phone. (I say everyone, but that's an exaggeration. It's only 5 houses on our block of 8 houses.)

We want to build a fence and the fence people won't give us a quote until we are ready to pull the trigger and schedule the work because the materials costs are fluctuating too much, they don't want to get burned.

We can't commit until the tree stumps in the way get ground and the lot plat comes back from the surveyors and we can submit it to the county for a fence permit.

I wonder if the border closure with Canada is contributing at all, or if the lumber can get through.