[TheJDMan]

To be honest, I was fortunate to fund Dust Off. I could just as easily have wound up with nothing. I had been saving for the build for several years and had a little over $15,000 saved. When the housing market and stocks took a dump during the 2007-8 recession and everyone was getting out of the stock market, it became increasingly apparent to me that stock prices were not likely to go much lower. Then when I heard one economist comment that stocks were at a 60 year low, I purchased $15,000 worth of stocks and crossed my fingers. This was either going to be the best or the worst investment decision I had ever made. Three years later my stock portfolio had increased in value by a cumulative factor of more than 4 times and it was time to sell. Believe it or don't, but that is how I funded my project.