Any Home Bakers Here?

Bake the bread/cookies/brownies before the showing. The smell will sell the house!

Ok, maybe not. :lau
But I don’t wanna sell the house - just the floor plan. The way it worked is we found a modular home online that we loved. We started researching dealers and found Hannah. Her reviews were 100% positive and absolutely glowing. Without exception every review talked about how she went above and beyond to set up everything from great finance options to adding the buyers’ options, from ordering the home to arranging delivery and set up. We didn’t have to worry about a single thing. So rather than going back to a big fancy modular home dealership up in Billings, we set up an appointment to go meet with her. She lives in stunning two story modular from the same factory that does all of the homes she sells. It’s a tiny town with a population of about 70. She doesn’t have a big lot with row after row of houses. Instead she had made arrangements with a previous buyer who bought one very similar to what we liked and we went through her home. The owner told us all the things they loved about theirs, what options they got, what changes they made, and what they wish they had or hadn’t done in theirs. We did the same in a few others Hannah had helped the owners get into. People just couldn’t recommend her and her business strongly enough. And because she isn’t paying an arm and a leg to have lots of models set up, there’s no huge overhead markup in the homes she sells. So we took the plunge.

She was here every step of the way. She was here when our beat up old single wide was pulled off our lot. She was here the day they poured the foundation. She was here when delivery was scheduled. She lives over an hour away but she’d stop by and check to see how we were doing. We were living in a small camper and one day her son had a basketball game in a neighboring town. Hannah brought over dinner for us.

Well, now we’re in the beautiful and affordable home she helped us get and it’s our turn to show off our home to prospective buyers. It’s fun!! They get to ask a million questions. They get to see how how our options and changes worked out. They get to see how their design ideas would work in the house. Sometimes we all sit at the table with the floor plan printout and compare what the base mode looks like to what we actually have. And when they leave, there’s a crisp $100 bill on our counter top. The first time we thought it had fallen out of her purse so we called her before she could get too far away. Nope. She said for the disruption in the routines of the owners, she pays $100 per tour.

No brownies or baking needed here!
 
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Oh Lord that bread is bad :lau it was way too sour and barely rose. I think the sourdough starter was too sour, so too much acetic acid.
It might have been too much starter for the long fermentation-- For a large loaf, I use90G of starter.
 
We’re sure happy with her….the day our sections were delivered she was out there grinning and almost jumping up and down with me. Here’s our Hannah.

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Foundation Day!! Yes, it was coooold!!!

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Bantering with the delivery driver and letting him know exactly where to set the sections.

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Yes, she’s as sweet and as much fun to deal with as she looks. This was also delivery day. Minor touches are still being done to the house…caulking, anchoring trim, fixing drawers that are a little off….and she keeps the punch list updated as we find those little things. Then she sees to it that the contractor is on top of it and getting it all done. We are so glad we found her!
 
Oh Lord that bread is bad :lau it was way too sour and barely rose. I think the sourdough starter was too sour, so too much acetic acid.
Oh oh!! I like sourdough, but I don’t like “in-your-face-sour sourdough”. I’m sorry you did all that work and didn’t like the results.
 
Oh Lord that bread is bad :lau it was way too sour and barely rose. I think the sourdough starter was too sour, so too much acetic acid.
All is not lost. Around here that is called chicken and dog bread. Our dogs love peanut butter sandwiches as treats and our chickens? Well they have never seen a chunk of bread they didn't love and if I don't go into the coop with their slice of bread offering every morning I get the stink eye royal.
 
Yikes, probably so. It called for 454g for 2 loaves 😬
That is too much!

Cut the starter to 180G next time and see what you get. You could likely go lower depending on what you get with this amount.

90G is 1\3 of a cup so 180 is about 2\3 of a cup
 

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