Gladys and Clara were familiar with the area the house was located in of course, and their minds were already spinning thinking about how much potential earnings they could make on the sale. And like anyone else in the real estate business, they looked into the fair market value of the property to come up with a ballpark figure. But before they could get too excited, despite Joyce reaching out to them, they knew from something in her voice that she wasn’t going to give up her house so quickly.