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“Is that the house?” Jack asked Bennett as his friend pulled his SUV in front of an old beach house on a rise. “There’s no sign.”
“It’s not officially on the market,” Bennett replied.
Bennett had already shown him a few properties, but none of them were quite what Jack had in mind. He didn’t need much space for himself, but he had to think about Leo and Scout now. A house within walking distance of Leo’s school was important to Jack. He preferred to be close to the beach and the village, too. For that reason, he had ruled out properties on the ridgetop.
“Since you said you were good at repairs, I thought you might want to look at this one. Some might consider this a tear-down, but that would be incongruent in this neighborhood. And it’s a historic district. But it had great bones, e
