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Chapter 11The lease on our new home on LongIsland did not begin until the fall. Lyn and thechildren spent the summer with my sisterMargaret, in Detroit.While Lyn and the children were inMichigan, I packed up and made arrangementsto move. Needless to say, my landlord wasecstatic. Without legal rent control leases, thebuilding was next to worthless. He had offered itto me for $45,000. With a vacancy, especially onthe first floor, he could sell the building to afamily to use as their primary residence. To showhis gratitude, he gave me a check for $700. I haveno idea how much he got for the sale of thebuilding, but in 2000, I saw a notice in The NewYork Times real estate section that listed samplesales in the city. My old apartment was listed. Itsold as a condo for $500,000. Not the building,just my old apartment.I packed up everything we owned incardboard boxes and then drove to Detroit andvisited for two weeks before coming back withmy family. Everything was timed perfectly. Wewould drive back on the new Route 80 whichwould knock off several hours from thePennsylvania Turnpike route. We would spend233