Longtime readers know I talk about our Cabin in Arnold, CA quite a bit. Well, I've just added three albums to my .Mac Gallery that may explain: Purchase, Fire, and Enjoy. My wife actually saved the money to make the down payment on this place, and it was back in the summer of 2001 when she began looking, making innumerable trips up here, which is about a 3-hr drive. I probably came up a half-dozen times myself. Dismal. I just couldn't stand anything. Then it was around October, I think, when the agent called us up and within 3 minutes of entering the place I was ready to go write an offer. I saw the potential immediately. We offered $12,500 more than it was listed for. Had we not, we'd have lost it to another buyer that very day. In total, it was three days on the market. So we entered a contract, and that's where the problems began. Turns out the seller built the house over the property line a few feet and didn't disclose it in the contract. Long story short is that it took so long to sort out that he wanted to back out of the...