I gave a client a $15,000 budget for tile and she went and picked out what she wanted and spent $35,000. To have someone blow a budget like that. ... There's just an unbelievable amount of expression to be done with tile.

I gave Robby an unlimited budget for Indy and he managed to exceed that.

He went out there and gave it everything he had, but unfortunately he had some kind of bug. I think it really made a difference.

The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

In the off-season I picked up a slider. That gave me an out pitch. When I get to 0-2, now I can bury a hitter.

The $200 billion remodeling industry is almost exclusively small businesses that operate in local communities. And we can now confirm that money spent on remodeling stays local.