Finally, they found the professional and caring work of James Michaelson, the real estate agent from Tyringham who also advertised on Springfield billboards. He showed them a home no one wanted, so the price was lower than bargain basement. This was not a handyman special, as agents often called them—houses that needed a lot of work just to get it to livable condition and even pass an inspection. No this was a well-built post-civil war solid house but it did have an issue that led many to steer away from it. Its history included families evacuating overnight in terror.—from Chapter 1