> ... I probably would have bought it anyway ...

Maybe the restoration would have been a (or another) point of friction, and perhaps the project would not have gone well because of it. You could have sold for breakeven, or less. Then you (and/or she) would have blamed that as the reason things went south.

Or it could have gone well and you could have lost your share in a divorce.

I don't really have a point ... maybe, bygones and all ...