Well, that beats MY story, Ian. TWICE! I think the part that really gets me is that he could have lived very comfortably on the 80k he could have kept getting from rent. That was triple anything he ever made from working and a heck of a lot of money here in the Midwest. But the greed got to him. I'm familiar with the psychological insight that says that people who sometimes get large amounts of money, especially from an inheritance, often feel sub-consciously "guilty" or "unworthy" of receiving the money and so try to spend it away so as not to be burdened with it. Still, most of the time I think it's just plain stupidity.
