In 2008, the economy crashed, and so did my job-thirty years of welding and carpentry experience down the drain. Governments and corporations gave no warning, but Lennin did. Booms go bust, and that's where my economic future went, bust. Riddled between a rock and a hard place, I found an opening. Sometimes, it makes sense to do what nobody else will do. They told me not to do it, but I did it anyway. I paid the price many times. Have you ever looked on the horizon and seen a rocky future? This story traces a path to renovating 1-4 unit brick buildings into affordable housing in the most impoverished and crime-ridden areas of New York State, starting in 2012-all of this on a bicycle and the skin of the teeth.

Through the juggernaut of landlord-tenant law in New York State, sinking into the welfare state and buried in the codes of the Department of Buildings, this book traces a path of many obstacles to making affordable housing without government funding. On two wheels with no vehicle, ten rental units come back to life and operate with punity. COVID-19 arrived, and the government took over housing. Can someone renovate vacant buildings into affordable housing in the areas with the highest crime and poverty rates in New York State without a vehicle and without government help? Get ready for take off. The adventure will begin once you take action; buy this book as soon as possible!.