Building A Tiger's Nest is Never Easy

I stumbled upon the following House Building Tips that I researched and planned to publish here last July 31, 2014.

House Building Tips:

1. Dream
2. Plan
3. Design
4. Re-design
5. Decide
6. Act and implement

More Tips:
1. Ask advice/ideas from those who have already built there own house
2. Research from the internet for some building tips that could help you in your decisions
3. Try to calculate how much is needed to finance your building adventure
4. Visit the prospective institution that could lend you loan and ask for estimate of how much will be the loanable amount and the corresponding interests
5. Learn the standard dimensions needed in your house plan
6. Choose the right contractor
7. Ask for God's intervention
8. Pray that all your plans will come true

Looking back, I think I was able to do all the tips. I dreamed since childhood to have my own abode. I plan a very long time ago when all I can afford is to buy a cheap Jena Cloth for the curtain, I designed my dream house, re-designed more than three times. After the pandemic, when I received the eviction notice, I decided to build. With so much courage and faith in God, I acted and implemented.

Jeremy Renner once said "Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly."

My house is almost complete. It costs me almost four million pesos, four set of loans, almost empty purse, two-year old heartache and lines on my tiger face. Yet all the struggles are rewarded with an awesome and unexplainable feeling.

Not bad after all.

Truly, we have to pay the price to make our dreams come true!