Saw my house one last time

[Sephiroth]

Since I moved into my apartment over five years ago my father had been renting the house I grew up in. He had initially wanted to sell it outright but the market sucked at the time-and so did the agent he tried to sell through. But now he has a buyer lined up and they close at the end of the month. Yesterday my father, brother and I payed a last visit to the old place. It was a honestly a rather depressing experience. Outside of the somber fact that I’m almost certainly never going to see the old place again was the unpleasant reality that the renters didn’t keep it up very well. I actually think I should have not gone and just remembered it as it was the day I left. I’m also a bit resentful of just how eager my dad is to wash his hands of it. Maybe it’s just nostalgia, but I will always consider that house my home, to one extent or another. It’s like an old friend you know you won’t get to see in person again.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Had a similar thing happen about 10 years ago. I lived the first 22 years of my life in the same house. Then moved 2 states west. My parents ended up selling the house. Was sold to a friend of theirs. So his two sons had a place to stay. It was going good until the oldest son got bad on meth again. Before he ended up moving out he had stripped all the wiring out of the walls,so he could sell the copper. So the father sold the house to someone in the area. Who ended up renting it out to a girl who I grew up with. Then her and her husband moved out and last time I saw the house it was sitting empty. The yard hadn't been mowed in at least 2 years and been told the inside is trashed.

[Kyn]

It's strange how attached you can get to houses. I think it's the idea of strangers moving in, changing things & in a weird way violating a place where so many of your memories are.

I moved a lot as a kid, but my grandparents have always lived in the same house. They're both alive & healthy (thankfully), but they've left the house to my mother in their Wills. When she told me she'd sell it when she inherits, I was shocked by how angry I was. If she goes through with it, I'm not sure I could keep speaking to her. The thought of strangers living in my grandparents house makes me cry.