Join Ron Tanner as he talks about his book, 'From Animal House to Our House: a love story.' Eleven years ago, Ron and his then-girlfriend, Jill, did the impossible. They bought a condemned property, a big Baltimore Victorian brownstone, and vowed to bring it back to its original glory. The house had been home to Baltimore's most notorious fraternity for a decade and now, wrecked and abandoned, it was filled with garbage. As if that weren't daunting enough: Ron and Jill had been dating for only six months and they knew nothing about fixing up old houses. Friends, family, and concerned onlookers told them not to do it -- they would surely lose their shirts and their love in the bargain.