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Wife (of 10 years) fell in love with a Victorian colonial mansion built in the 1800's. 14 rooms, with a center hall staircase so wide you can't touch both railings, platform hallway on each floor like an old apt building that leads to the staircase to the next floor. Servents staircase from kitchen up to each floor, dumbwaiters in the walls,giant rooms, marble fireplaces in every room etc.etc.etc. Home needed complete renovation.
Told her NO! Explained that it needed at least 250,000.00 in repairs and modernizing (complete electrical,plumbing,heating etc.). She bought it behind my back using my credit and cash (she didn't work) and thought I'd go along with it once we owned it. WRONG! I filed for divorce the following week. It's been 12-13 years since then and the house needs more work now than it did then. I'm sure her new hubby (remarried 5-6 years ago) has come to the realization that if they ever get close to finishing the first things that were done will need redoing again by then.
Oh ya they refinanced it when the market was up to get money to fix it up, blew the cash. Now the place is probably worth less than the mortgage balance.
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