" A home is such a system nowadays. Almost every component interacts with the other components from a performance standpoint."

Building a house is a process.

It takes hundreds of people to finish it.

An exact copy has never been built before, and won't be built again.

And it won't be perfect.

But if you trust in the process and have patience, tolerance, a willingness to do your homework and an appropriate amount of money in your checkbook you will, in the end, have the home of your dreams.

That is the message from two veteran Sarasota-Manatee homebuilders with 70 years of experience between them - Lee Wetherington and John Cannon.

Read more at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.