home & family
w When Rex and Lisa King bought a 100-year-old fixer-upper home on the west side of town, they thought it would be a great project for Rex. He had recently retired as a supervisor at the Columbus/Bartholomew County Recycling Center and wanted something to do. After a while, however, they grew weary of the time and expense they were putting into the house and started looking for a different place to live. Meanwhile, a new house was going up not far away, and each time they passed it they commented how lucky the people who got to live there would be. They didn’t realize then that they would be those lucky people. What had happened was that Fred and Jodie Cusack,
owners of MAC General Contractors, had torn down an old, dilapidated house on the property and then designed and built a new one. It was a spec house — not one designed for a specific client — and when Lisa saw the “for sale” sign go up in the yard, she called her real estate agent immediately. “I said to her, ‘I must live in that house!’” she said. And live in the house she now does. 22
Columbus Magazine