I also see in our business a bigger trend toward dumping those houses and buying smaller houses.

[Before the storm, business was so good that Harris had 24 houses in the works, 12 of them under contract to eager buyers. He employed 60 to 80 subcontracted workers on any given day, with a payroll running close to six figures each week because of the volume of work. On average, his team completed one house every other week.] Nobody had a bigger customer base than me, ... but because I was doing so well and had so much out and in progress, the properties are working against me right now.

Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long?
Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.

Lots of us bought houses here because we thought all of this would be housing. It's a good neighborhood, it's quiet and now you want to add 90 to 100 apartments to it. If there's anything we can do to buy time, please let us do so.

We need to determine whether to get into the crime business or get out,

Hockey can be a real tough business with the slimmest of profit margins, obviously.