When my husband called and requested for a vinyl siding contractor to come out and give us an estimate on installing vinyl siding on our house, I could not believe my ears. I had been asking him for the last four years to have vinyl siding put on our house, and he always said that we could not afford it, so I am wondering what could have changed his mind.

I did not want to push the matter, so I just acted like I did not over hear the phone conversation that my husband had with the vinyl siding contractor but then he did something else. I heard him pick up the phone again, and call a residential roofing company and ask them to come out and give him an estimate on replacing our roof. Our roof had leaked about four years ago and my husband got up on the roof and fixed it himself, but he told me that it would not last much longer.

I decided to call him out on the two phone calls that he had just made, and find out what was going on. He laughed and told me that he took out a home equity loan on our house and borrowed enough to have the vinyl siding contractor and the residential roofing companies do the much needed work to our house.