Some Long Island real estate agents did more than help sell houses last Saturday. They helped build one.
Dozens of agents, Nassau BOCES students and other volunteers lent a hand for the wall-raising of the Habitat for Humanity of Nassau County home that will belong to Frances Brown and her two children.
The Long Island Board of Realtors is cosponsoring the Roosevelt home, which means they raised some money to buy material to construct the house and have committed to doing some of the work.
Brown, a legal secretary, and her children, Jesse and Jessica, also put in their sweat equity, part of Habitat's creed. The three live in a Hempstead studio apartment and are expected to move into their bigger digs by fall.