Returning Family Treasures

“We tried to do the right thing… and it turned the whole neighborhood against us.”

Part 1 I’m 25F, and my parents and I have been living in our current house

since 2020. Before we bought it, it belonged to one family for decades

— a carpenter, his wife, and their daughter. He literally built this house himself

in the 70s, right alongside his friends, so the neighbors were all incredibly

close. His wife passed away in 2014. His daughter moved away in 2015.

And he lived here alone until he died in 2020. After that, the daughter came

back to the state, sold us the house, and left again. When we moved in, we found several