Single Mom Bought an Abandoned Hotel for $5000 — What She Found in the Penthouse Was Worth $180M... When Claire Donovan first drove past the old Riverside Grand Hotel, she didn’t see what the rest of the town saw. To most locals in Dayton, Ohio, the place was a ruin: broken windows, a roof sagging in places, and ivy climbing over its faded white facade. It had been closed for over twenty years, abandoned after a fire in the kitchen and a string of bankruptcies that followed. But Claire, a thirty

Single Mom Bought an Abandoned Hotel for $5000 — What She Found in the Penthouse Was Worth $180M... When Claire Donovan first drove past the old Riverside Grand Hotel, she didn’t see what the rest of the town saw. To most locals in Dayton, Ohio, the place was a ruin: broken windows, a roof sagging in places, and ivy climbing over its faded white facade. It had been closed for over twenty years, abandoned after a fire in the kitchen and a string of bankruptcies that followed. But Claire, a thirty

Single Mom Bought an Abandoned Hotel for $5000 — What She Found in the Penthouse Was Worth $180M... When Claire Donovan first drove past the old Riverside Grand Hotel, she didn’t see what the rest of the town saw. To most locals in Dayton, Ohio, the place was a ruin: broken windows, a roof sagging in places, and ivy climbing over its faded white facade. It had been closed for over twenty years, abandoned after a fire in the kitchen and a string of bankruptcies that followed. But Claire, a thirty