I'm so surprised she left the house to rot over Winter. I would have thought that they would have paid for someone to come in and at least check on the place, like it doesn't take a genius to figure out that a house will get damp if closed up all Winter. And it's just a small thing but buying houseplants then just leaving them to die? Why not give them away, it just seems so wasteful. The entire house in Italy thing just seems like them playing at being grownups(and failing miserably).