After our divorce, my husband kept the house and quickly moved his new girlfriend in, while I quietly packed my things and left. A week later, he called furious, demanding that I “fix this pile of stones” because nothing worked—but he had forgotten that the smart-home system, irrigation, security, internet, and other services were all connected to accounts I personally paid for. I canceled my accounts and contracts, leaving him responsible for reconnecting everything himself, which meant facing expensive new installations and services. He got the house, but he soon realized that keeping it didn’t mean keeping everything I had been paying for. READ MORE BELOW
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