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Friday, May 22, 1981 Part 9 Cos Angeles Strata Ob (7 Vjlllllir; tr GEORGE OLSON Denise Sumtter with daughters Lameana and Tee-Se in front of home family is building. already had all the experiences with each other. It is not going to happen 10 years down the road that you find you don't like somebody." Wilbert Lee agrees: "They understand each other better than any 14 families you can find on any block," he says. "They have learned something about each other that will make a lasting association." Which is not to say there haven't been problems. Says Lee, "We let them make their own color selections, and one family chose a blue trim for their house.

The blue was really off the color chart, which was earth tones. That bothered some people, and they brought it to me. I said, 'If enough of you don't like blue, bring it up at the homeowners' association They decided not to. They have quarrels, but they get over them." About eight of the houses are almost finished, the rest not far behind, and people will be moving in soon. Yo-landa Byrd says that at first she kept wondering, "What's the catch?" Especially after some of her friends rautioned her that later on she might regret getting involved.

"But later on I found there is no catch," she says. Indeed, what the Byrds and the other 13 couples are doing is living an old American tradition: building their own houses. with a little help from the neighbors. Pauline Evans, with husband Jake: "Here I nail out the stress and strain of my job." DO IT YOURSELF Continued from 8th Page "Which is rough," she sighs. "By the time I get home, I have to say, 'Mommy can't play.

Wait until we finish building the It seems to get harder and harder, and it is the same 40 hours." Nevertheless, Byrd says she would do it again "But not with my husband I won't" The problem: "Getting him up and out in the morning. I get tired of saying, 'Come on, Charlie, get up and get Denise Sumtter would also consider building her own house another time. "I would like to do it with some of these people," she says. "You know what you are in for. People get along well on the whole." Pauline Evans enjoyed it, too.

"I'm not saying I would want to do it again in a group, but me and Jake I think we will do it again," she says. On the other hand, Ban Howard says firmly, "I will never do this again. Sleeping or going to work there isn't anything besides this. This is your whole life." Howard was helping Charles Byrd put up kitchen cabinets on a recent Saturday morning. There was a lot of kidding back and forth, and he commented, "We have -if -o Robinsons duttg imi OUR SUMMER COLLECTION, 539.999.99.

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