"Who stays in it? I pass by it everyday, never seen anyone around."
"Its been empty for years now. Nobody lives here."
"Why? Such a gorgeous house."
"Its abandoned. The owner died many years ago. And the heirs got entangled in a legal dispute."
"Why, what happened?"
"Well, the younger wanted to sell and hand it over to new owners as their widowed eighty years old mother found it cumbersome to maintain the huge old house. They'd have gotten the money where the mother and her could live without burden of looking after such a big house, handling nuisance tenants, add to the disadvantage of the house being located at such steep hill etc, many other structural and logistical problems."
"Go on..I'm listening"
"Well, the elder one who neither lived there nor contributed anything to its upkeep simply created unnecessary negativity and hurdles. She was extremely nasty towards her younger sibling; and opposed just for the sake of opposing. Even after being offered her share."
"What about the widowed mother?"
"Well, she too wanted the sell to happen as she was the one who was suffering the most. The elder had refused to take her with her and also didn't want to let the younger one make the move. So the mother was trapped."
"That's really horrible."
"So..well..the house eventually became dilapidated and uninhabitable. The mother dragged on for as long as she could. Her last old days were a struggle."
"That's too bad."
"Yeah..timely action could have saved the house...but, now, this is all what remains."
"The elder one was really mean and wicked. She made everyone suffer...what a waste."
