When Mary starts talking with her father about going up to Christmas Lodge to look at it for repairs, Mike automatically starts putting numbers on fixing the place up, such as $500,000 to fix the kitchen, and so on. As a construction estimator myself, it is impossible to come up with numbers like he did and $500,000 can buy you a whole building with a new kitchen in it. He is way off base in giving numbers and not having seen the place in 20 years or more.