Built in 1890, the Morey Mansion in Redlands, California, is one of its most distinctive reminders of the city’s Victorian past. Here are four very good reasons not to own it.
- You’ll never finish painting it. By the time you reach the last piece of Victorian gingerbread trim, the first piece will have noticed your availability and started peeling again.
- It has 96 windows. That’s not a house with windows; that’s a window-cleaning business that happens to have a house attached to it.
- Something is always going to need fixing. In an 1890 mansion, a mysterious creak isn’t necessarily a ghost—it may simply be your bank account trying to escape.
- You can forget about a relaxing Saturday. While your neighbors are washing their cars, you’ll be on the phone saying, “Yes, I need someone who specializes in 19th-century decorative woodwork…and preferably takes monthly payments.”