Elias walked back to the house as the sun began to set. He stepped inside and listened. The floorboards creaked under his weight, but for the first time in his life, they were his creaks. He didn't have a mountain of debt to climb; he just had a roof to fix.
The house was a wreck. The roof needed shingles, the plumbing groaned, and the wallpaper was peeling like sunburned skin. But as they sat at her kitchen table, the silence was different than the silence of a rented apartment. buying a house without a loan
"I don't have those," Elias said. He pulled out the satchel. "I have the full amount. Right now. We can go to the title company this afternoon." Elias walked back to the house as the sun began to set