I was just wondering where all the cash was coming from. I mean, if there was some sort of windfall made in selling "The Shack". Perhaps they just sold it and moved to Modesto. I had read that the country club bought back Scott's membership for $25,000 or so. That seems to be an awfully large amount of money for a fertilizer salesman in CenCal, unless the members were paying him some type of premium to get him out of the club. Wouldn't you put that kind of money into a bigger house? Perhaps that was something his parents bought him for putting up with Modesto. I dated a girl from Cal Poly SLO in the mid to late nineties...from the people I met that attended there, it seemed to be the school you applied to when partied your way through SoCal HS, had a 2.50 gpa and could afford, but couldnt get into UCLA, UCSB.. On the other hand, the nice people and serious students I met were from the Central Valley (CA)... students apply there because of their good agricultural programs. (Also of note, a lot of families in the Central Valley will vacation or own summer homes on the Central Coast area...Morrow Bay, Pismo Beach, etc.)
They owned a business in SLO, no property, and sold it or closed it in 2000.
Wouldn't you put that kind of money into a bigger house? Absolutely. His house was about built out though. With the pool taking up much of the footprint, I think the allowable percentage of buildable lot had probably been reached. His friends were probably already suitably impressed and now he needed to capture some bigger fish in the community. A country club membership would be just the ticket.
I do think SP's parents put up the money for the CC. He probably convinced them it would be beneficial to his job and his status in the community. It's easy to detect an attraction to appearances in the Jackie Peterson psyche. Hence all the stories that she has told of SP supposedly saintly youth. "The Bad Seed" movie flashes by everytime I hear one.