Taking a bath costs $4,000

 

 After my grandaunt passed away, I needed to clean up her house. She didn’t have a child. I started with the bathroom. My grandaunt intentionally broke it. She had Alzheimer’s disease. She was afraid of having an accident in the bathroom, so she made the bathtub unusable. My relatives and I couldn’t decide whether we should sell or rent out the house at that time, so I thought I should fix the bathroom. The house should at least be a place where someone could live in. I asked a repair company how much it would cost to fix the bathroom. They said it would cost $4,000.

 I fixed the bathroom. I thought I should take a bath in there. It had an old-style bath system, but it was comfortable.

 My grandaunt had many properties. I spent almost three years cleaning them up.

 After cleaning up the house, my relatives and I finally decided to rent it out. We needed to renovate it to find a tenant. I assumed the bathroom was OK. But the real estate agent and the carpenters strongly recommended for us to do a total renovation of the bathroom because bath heating systems had developed over the last few decades. Furthermore, tenants tended to make a decision on a house depending on its wet area. We took the real estate agent’s and carpenters’ advice. We completely renovated the bathroom.

 I only used the fixed old bathroom once. It cost $4,000. It could be extremely luxurious.

 I should use that in many different ways.

Picture by DIJ