The Libcan team in front of their new building in Truro Heights. - Chelsey GouldTRURO HEIGHTS, N.S. — When Sam Abushenaf first got into real estate and construction, he didn’t even know what a two-by-four was, but he took every opportunity to learn.For the first house he flipped, he decided to hire and shadow a contractor to learn. And after a rental caught fire, he got into restoration with PuroClean, a U.S. national-based franchise.
“It was very tough at the beginning. You have fun and you go to school, you meet people and then you finish. And then it’s ‘what am I going to do now.’ You get stuck again and then try to get a job, and it’s not easy to find one with no experience.” “It took a lot of thought, and I'm happy with it because we want to keep things local here too,” said Abushenaf.A"smoke bay" entrance sealed to keep items separated. - Chelsey Gould
“It's limiting the amount of times we're touching people's belongings, so less risk of damage, less risk of loss or misplacing when you have multiple jobs in," said Kim Boomer, project manager. “This gives us the space to keep everything segregated.“ Libcan recently hosted an open house for the community, its partners and staff to showcase the new building. - Chelsey Gould
“We do the things that a lot of people don't want to do, the sewer backups in basements and fires where people's homes have been destroyed and it's the worst times of their life," said Boomer. “So it's a different kind of job sometimes when we have to go into those types of scenarios. It's not always pretty.