There is something deeply revealing about a house when it has stood through a storm.
In Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa, many homes are no longer simply places to live. They are records. They show where the wind tested the roof, where the rain found a weakness, where families gathered themselves together and decided—quietly—what to fix first and what could wait.
And now, in the midst of this collective rebuilding, some homeowners are facing another decision entirely: whether to sell.
Not someday. Not hypothetically. But now.
And with that comes a deceptively simple question that, on closer inspection, turns out to be anything but: do you sell the house exactly as it stands, scars and all, or do you intervene—repair, restore, re-present—before inviting the market to judge it?
In Jamaica, in this moment, that question deserves time.
