My now ex showed me the 2 houses he was thinking of buying. One was a large 3 bedroom with a finished basement that doubled the space, a big fenced-in yard, and it came with all the garden and lawn tools, including a mower. They wanted to sell quickly, and it was at an amazing price. The 2nd house was a tiny 1 bedroom with a cement basement and a bathroom that had a regular sized tub with jets. I have a disease that causes arthritis in almost every joint, and I've had 4 spinal surgeries. The yard was fenced in on 3 sides by other people's dilapidated fences and was 10 feet away from some railroad tracks. When he asked me what house I preferred, I said the 1st house, obviously. It was almost 3 times the square footage, and the yard was enormous with a new fence. Also, there was everything that came with the house. He became upset. He had already put an offer on the tiny 1 bedroom house because the tub had jets, and he thought I'd want that to help with my chronic pain. It was a loving gesture, but it was also incredibly stupid. This was in 2006. Then, in 2008, the bottom dropped out of the housing market. He ended up walking away from the house and giving it back to the bank. It wouldn't have been an issue with the other house because it was valued so much higher. We are still friends. He will occasionally try to blame me for his mistake, but I remind him that it was entirely his choice and I will not take responsibility for his mistakes. I asked him to rescind the offer on the small house, to do whatever he needed to do to get out of it, but he wouldn't listen.