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From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story
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Ten years ago, Ron and his then-girlfriend, Jill, did the impossible. They bought condemned property—a big Baltimore Victorian brownstone and vowed to bring it back to its original glory. The house had been home to Baltimore's most notorious fraternity for a decade and now, wrecked and abandoned, it was filled with garbage. As if that weren't daunting enough: Ron and Jill had been dating for only six months and they knew nothing about fixing up old houses. Friends, family, and concerned onlookers told them not to do it they would surely lose their shirts and their love in the bargain. But Jill wanted the house and Ron wanted Jill. So Ron bought the house.
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Reviews for From Animal House to Our House
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have next to no interest in historical preservation and yet I felt compelled to read this entire book. This a memoir, so of course the entire book is not about reapplying plaster or finding a comtempoary door knob. The author meets a woman and falls in love and one of the primary reasons he decides to restore this monster, three-story Queen Anne house, is to cement their relationship. The author is certainly a patient man; some of the stuff his girlfriend pulls during the restoration would make most people pretty angry. Prior to them restoring the house, it had been a frat house. The frat had nearly destoryed the house and literally left sh*t all over the place. The fact that they were able to restore the house with the difficulites they had and not murder each other is testament to their love for each other. Kudos to Mr. Tanner for restoring his house with little money, no experience, and turning the process into an enjoyable memoir.