"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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Yep, you had a communication failure. Lots of women don't like liens
on their home. Men too, and I'm one of them. Age has a lot to do
with it too. What younger people call leverage older people call just
plain debt. A lienless home is a real ace in the hole, but it's hard
to play it except on a real good hand. For many that hand can only be
replacing or improving the house.


Women are nesters and there is often no rhyme or reason for their attachment
to a house.
I've had many discussions with Mrs. E. regarding the 8000 square foot house
we own but only two of us live in. It's not like we raised all the kids
here or anything .... we bought it after they had all left the nest because
it was ideally setup for her (then) new interest in having horses. Now, we
don't even have the horses here ... they are boarded at a nearby training
stable. The horse barn, which I have all kinds of ideas for converting for
other uses, is off limits and remains spotlessly clean, ready to house the
horses again if they ever return. (which, if I have my way, they won't).

There are bedrooms and bathrooms in this house that have never been used,
for cripes sake. No level of logic or rational thinking will permit any
consideration on her part to selling it and moving into a more sensible
house for two. Oh, well. I tell people it's like living in an empty
Sheridan.

Eisboch