Insurance four times.

Water.

A new roof in the spring of 2021 for eighteen thousand four hundred dollars.

A boiler the following year for six thousand two hundred.

Every line had a check mark in the margin, and every check mark was made in the same small, square hand.

“There’s no mortgage anywhere in here,” Marcus said.

“He told me once that he’d paid it off.

I never knew whether to believe him.”