by Anthony Cannata | Mar 26, 2020 | Makoski Posts
Conference calls can be excruciating. If you’re the first one in, you have to make the most awkward of small talk–yes, it sure is cold–and if you’re last then you’re a jerk. They’re like meetings, only worse. This video from comedians Tripp and Tyler perfectly...
by Anthony Cannata | Mar 19, 2020 | Makoski Posts
The global spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is keeping people at home. Major conferences, including Mobile World Congress and Google I/O have been canceled to decrease the risk of infection. Some employers are encouraging or requiring people to work from...
by Anthony Cannata | Feb 20, 2020 | Awards, Makoski Posts
Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland Remodelers Council Chair Wins National Award Frank Makoski, CGR, CAPS, CGP, the Chair for the Remodelers Council of the Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland was honored with a national award, the Council Award...
by Anthony Cannata | Dec 5, 2018 | Makoski Posts
Unlike the majority of industries that have changed over recent decades—mostly due to new technology—the processes for constructing a new home have not changed in more than 100 years—until now. Up until this point, residential builders have followed a standardized set...
by Anthony Cannata | Nov 21, 2018 | Makoski Posts
Thanksgiving Little Facts. Though many competing claims exist, the most familiar story of the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony, in present-day Massachusetts, in 1621. More than 200 years later, in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the final...
by Anthony Cannata | Oct 19, 2018 | Makoski Posts
In the distant future, when archaeologists excavate houses from our era, they might conclude that our plain, cookie-cutter ceilings show a lack of imagination. And for the most part, they’d be right. They’d find popcorn ceilings. Boring acoustic tiles. And drywall,...