“The successful small business owners I know do exactly this.”
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Indeed.
On my small commercial building and home, I do ALL of my own maintenance, improvements and repairs.
The alternative is to have a horde of make-work inspector/ bureucrats sniffing over my building and exponentially increasing the cost and time of any given project.
The only thing I have to put up with is a fat-assed, grossly underworked, heavily pensioned fire captain strolling through by building every year telling me I need to check the batteries in my EXIT signs and smoke detectors.
Gee thanks for the “professional” guidance.
I have a feeling that someone from 16th or 17th century Europe would see much that they recognize in our present state of affairs (along with a lot that they would not). Back then The King has his finger in anything and everything along with the various Lords, Dukes, Guilds and what have you. We had some breathing room for a few hundred years and we’re rapidly reverting back to the norm.