Cara Brookins is a single mother who lives with her four kids.
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| Cara Brookins |
“You’re often in survivor mode when you have to face this level of violence in the home all day long.”
To escape the daily threat and fear, Cara and her kids decided to find a safe space for themselves. However, when they realized how expensive the housing market is, they planned to build a house with their own hands.
She thought to herself, “What if we bought some 2’ x 4’s and put that together? Would we want to build it and turn it into a dream house?”
Cara soon took a bank loan of $150,000 to buy the materials for the house, and they began the process of building their dream house.
All four kids and Cara herself were naive when it came to building anything, let alone a big house to live in. But that’s when they took advantage of the opportunity to learn it on YouTube.
They learned and performed different aspects of building a dream house, from how to frame a house to pouring a foundation.
Along the process, Cara revealed that they also learned how to communicate better and work like a team, which is a far more essential skill than anything else.
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| Cara Brookins |