So the company purchased the house directly from the bank.
Diane and Robert were then allowed to remain there under a family occupancy agreement.
They paid no rent.
There was no public eviction.
No humiliation.
No family scandal.
There were only three conditions.
They had to maintain the property.
They had to pay the utilities.
And they could not engage in conduct that created serious legal liability for the company that owned the house.
What Diane had done during Christmas dinner clearly crossed that line.
Especially because there was video.
I looked at my phone.
Diane had installed security cameras throughout the dining room because she constantly worried about burglars.
And after the first strike, Ethan’s smartwatch had automatically triggered an emergency alert connected to my phone.
I had already saved the footage before we arrived home.
Robert continued speaking.
“Your mother called the property-management number because she received some kind of warning. She thought it was automated.”
