Talk:Dorian Delacroix/@comment-27680174-20180111204552/@comment-3452092-20180112002657

I don't think it's pride to want to look below the surface to see if there is something nefarious going on. And if there isn't and they want the deal, then I don't see why they shouldn't take it.

But here's the thing. I think it's a bad deal and I wouldn't want it even if I thought it was a good one, because he's not offering something I would want. He is not offering to set them up in an apartment and pay for it. He is offering to put them up in an apartment and help them with the bills. Now, he may help them to the point of them paying the same as what they are currently paying, but that wasn't clear. Personally. . . apartment. . . no thanks! We are literally talking about the difference between something close to my dream house, even if it's just for a few years (two and a half or so), and one of my worst housing nightmares, apartments (not the worst as I can imagine some pretty bad things, but in the general scheme of things, apartments are extremely low on my list of desirable places to live).

Beyond that, I simply don't trust this man. I'd want to know way more about the project he's working on before I would even consider accepting his deal. (and if I was Gabriela, I'd want him to pay to move the house in order to preserve it as part of the deal, but that's another matter entirely).

The house is most certainly worth saving. It is not falling apart, not any more. It just needs more care to stay in good repair than newer houses. In my mind totally worth it, but that's Gabriela's decision. Two and a half years, give or take grad school if Hartfeld has one and any of them plan to attend.

And then there is the Vasquez factor. He didn't strike me as irrational. . . yes, he was full of pride, no doubt there, but not irrational. He turned Dorian Delacroix down before his death. I'd want to know why.

Oh. And my college dorm was a lot like the house they are renting from Gabriela. Three story Victorian home that wasn't in the greatest of shape. It was awesome. I loved it. And when the school decided it was time to go online only, they sold that dorm and the school building to people who wanted to restore them. They would have sold them to anyone willing to pay their price (and I'm not really sure what happened to the former boys dorm), but the people who bought them were people who saw them as something worth restoring.