Dream Home easily morphs into Nightmare

There New York Times has been running an account on a couple building their Dream Vacation Home. The description:

They've found an idyllic tiny town in Florida, they've bought a piece of land and now Paul B. Brown and Alison Davis are setting out to build their dream house. How hard can it be, they wonder, even though they live 1,500 miles away, they've never built a home before and they don't know anything about architects, builders, local zoning laws or financing? On this blog for Great Homes, they recount their successes and failures and will chronicle their adventures to come.

The "blog" is not really the correct format for their story as it is a largely a history raher than a contemporaneous on-going real time account. Nonetheless it is somewhat addictive and of course I have left my own comments there.