The parents could have afforded a baby-sitter for their big baby.
They could have afforded to put nick in a home for schizophrenic drug addicts. Probably $10,000 a month. The value of the Reiner mansion is 13.5 million. If appraised by la county...the worth might be about 7 million. LA county property taxes is a little more than 1% of value per year. So yearly taxes are about 70-85 thousand per year. Reiner could easily have afforded that. Reiner also owned a home across the street, and another one valued at 3.2 million. His property taxes were probably over 120 thousand per year.
He could have easily afforded residential care for his son.
Reiner was clearly out of his league regarding management of a difficult, tragic situation. Cost him and his wife their lives