I should mention my mother’s negative experiences. She said that after the immediate blush of joy in home ownership, the house felt wrong. Angry and sad and not at all the warm home they were trying to create. She’d see shadows and hear footsteps, plus my older siblings (I never lived there) were constantly getting hurt. Not just normal kids in the country owies, I mean broken bones, trips and falls all the time, falls, undefined illnesses etc.
Plus she said it seemed like there was a constant disharmony in the family, spats and quarrels that just weren’t usual.
Dad built a new house on some different land, but families that lived in that house afterward had similar troubles. The new house was like day vs. night.
Anyway, my mom was very no-nonsense, so for her to say this darkness was present there was a big deal. She wouldn’t step foot in that house again.
Love you, Wes!