Unauthorized Modifications in a New Home

I discovered a series of unauthorized modifications in my new construction home that explain

why my tools kept disappearing The silence in a brand-new housing development is distinct

from the silence of the countryside; it is a heavy, manufactured stillness that smells of curing

concrete and wet mulch, lacking the organic noise of insects or wind through

old trees, and for the first three weeks of living in the Oakmont Phase II subdivision,

that silence was the only thing I noticed. I was the first resident on a street

destined for twelve luxury homes, but currently, mine was the only structure with siding

and a roof, surrounded by skeleton frames of timber and poured foundations that looked like