article_snippet.sent: If his mother taught me anything, it's that this is the most desperate demand that a parent can make on a child,' Phillip Buchanon wrote in an exclusive excerpt released to Fox Sports.
article_snippet.sent: This left Former NFL player Phillip Buchanon paying for mortgage and maintenance payments for both houses for seven years.
article_snippet.sent: his mother ended up losing the home. '
article_snippet.sent: his mother told me that if her new house didn't have space for two living room sets, his mother didn't want it,' Former NFL player Phillip Buchanon writes.
highlights_snippet.sent: But Phillip Buchanon refused to sell a brand new house and rented a brand new house to Phillip Buchanon sister .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: So Phillip Buchanon ended up paying maintenance for both houses for seven years without getting any of the rent money .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: When Phillip Buchanon finally had enough his mother asked for $15,000 instead of a smaller house whose upkeep his mother could afford .