It was somewhere in that neighbourhood, so it was a big house. When he resold it, he actually more than profited because of it.
The other basic question I have is, how much exchange do you do with other countries for information? One doesn't want to reinvent the wheel. I realize, having lived abroad, that we have very different building techniques from other parts of the world, but we do have certain overlap with the EU and places like that. How much interchange is there and how much back and forth swapping of information is there?