Michael Cohen

Yeah, here's all the money we could ever imagine having.

And my wife got the call from our realtor later that day, and she's like, they said yes.

My wife dropped the phone.

In May of 2022, they moved into a two-bedroom, one-bathroom bungalow built in the 1920s.

Mike says it wasn't big enough to feel like a forever home, but it was a really nice start.

I always wanted to plant trees wherever we would end up living.

And I was always planting things on the fire escape in Brooklyn.

And all of a sudden, I felt like I had...

an empty green canvas where everything could grow.

So we had dozens of fruit trees.

We had a lemon tree, a bear's lime tree, a pomegranate tree, apricot tree, pluot tree, apple tree, pear tree, clementine tree, a bunch of orange trees, and it felt amazing.

You guys want to come into my house?

I'd love to, yeah.

Bring out that picture so you can be reminded of what it used to look like.

The day we visited the site of Mike's former home in December, it was warm and sunny.

Most of the large trees on his block had been burned or cut down after the fire, so there wasn't a lot of shade.

We could see a big dirt square in the middle of the property.

So this...

was the footprint of my house.

Where these things are, those are the corners.