The HVAC repair in Brooklyn that I had couldn’t have come at a better time. On a cold winter day, my heater stopped working, and I couldn’t take it. I was working from home at the time, and I was so cold that my teeth were chattering, which has never happened to me. I tried to warm myself up by putting on more clothes, wearing blankets, and even using some hand warmers, but none of those really got me to the warmth that I would experience if I had a working heater.

This made me think of the time that I was home shopping, and passed up on a house that had a working fireplace. The home was similar to the home that I have now, but it just had a fireplace in the living room. It looked great and really made the living room stand out, but I figured …