Chapter 4 - TYLER MOVES IN

Tyler owned a small kitchen-remodeling company.
Good worker.
Bad operator.
He underpriced jobs.
Used deposits from new clients to finish old jobs.
Then material prices increased.
Three projects collapsed.
Debt:
approximately $146,000.
Tyler and Sophie sold their condo.
They told Claire they needed:
“a few weeks.”
Claire agreed to thirty days.
They stayed.
Two months.
Four.
Eight.
Claire asked Evelyn:
“What’s the plan?”
Evelyn said:
“They’re family.”
Claire said:
“So am I.”
That conversation changed something.
Evelyn began acting as if Claire’s ownership were a technicality.
Tyler began calling the property:
“the family house.”
Sophie told neighbors:
“We moved back into Richard and Evelyn’s place.”
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Claire corrected no one.
She should have.