This also reminds me that in 1958 he sold his father's house for $15,000, but I was reminded by one of the poems on the KPFK CD that his father still owed $8,000 on the mortgage. So Bukowski probably saw five or six thousand profit from that sale, which must have been nice to bank, but it's nowhere near the $15,000 "cushion" that a lot of people (myself included) assumed he had after the sale.