In the hazy, late-night glow of a basement rec room in suburban Ohio, 2024, Leo—known to his small corner of the internet as “bra”—stared at the blinking cursor on his cracked laptop. The house had been his late grandmother’s: a sprawling, dusty colonial with creaking floorboards and a furnace that groaned like a dying animal. After six months of battling probate court, Leo had inherited it. But inheriting meant fixing, and fixing meant money he didn’t have.
This month’s house energy includes:
