It appeared they hadn’t missed much at all. Jimmy was just settling into another chair beside Chris. Savannah’s cheeks were flushed and she kneaded her hands together nervously.
Chris leaned back in his chair. “So what has your client decided?”
“I’ll tell you what I know.” She sat up a little straighter and licked her lips. “A couple months back, the head of the development company came around our neighborhood and offered to buy a bunch of people out so they could build the condos. Thomas said no like most everyone else. I wasn’t home when they came by the first time so I didn’t know how much was being offered.”
“I’m guessing it was a pretty nice sum.”
“More than the house was worth. Thomas got it appraised every couple of years. He says it’s out of habit. It was in his family for three generations. His grandfather built it maybe seventy years ago. He took full ownership around the time he married his first wife.