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Very much a marketplace story, what it takes to find a building contractor one year after the California wildfires.

I'm David Brancaccio in Pasadena, California. Some numbers are too big to comprehend.

Here's one, $27 billion, an estimate of the value of all the houses destroyed in the Southern California wildfires one year ago.

Here's a much smaller but also confounding number 30.

That's the number of general contractors one of my neighbors had to talk to to find someone

to rebuild the house he owned two up from where I lost my house in Altadena.

Father of two, Dustin Kunkel, is in the solar panel business. Here's some of our chat

essentially over the side fence. So we bought our house back in 2018 and we'd been renting it out,

kind of planning to move up into it. And our renters, they lost out on a probate house the summer before the fires.

And so we let them stay in there.

And I don't know if I'm lucky or unlucky.

So what's the plan?

We're going to move into it once we finish it.

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