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Okay, not exactly the explanation of how he’d come to live here that I hoped for. I try again. “Was it empty a long time before you bought it?” “Years. It was originally built as a resort hotel but never made it. Too far from the beach I guess. Then it was bought by some religious sect. They had it for a few decades before the leader committed suicide and it went on the market again. Then a corporation bought it, tried to make it into an exclusive rehab center for rich drug addicts. Don’t know what happened there, but it wasn’t successful, so a private investor bought it, tried to fix it up and flip it, but the economy took a s**t and he lost everything. The IRS repossessed it to cover his unpaid taxes. Then some old eccentric guy bought it at auction and lived here with his nurse until h
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