rest, and it would fully pass to him when you’re gone.”
He’d recommended I get an appraisal first. A man named Ronald Pettigrew came out in April with a clipboard and a laser measure and walked through every room. His report came in the mail a week later.
Market value as of April 21st: $1,940,000.
I’d sat at my kitchen table and laughed out loud. A wreck with a dead crab in the sink. Bought for $142,000.
Graham drafted the deed. It took him three weeks. Then
