Turner said he was apprehensive about buying the hotel at first, given the previous owners didn’t allow them to do a building inspection.
“I wanted building inspections, and just to see this old thing, but as soon as Boris went there and saw it he called me up in California and said ‘Are you in? This is so amazing,'” Turner said. “So I said, ‘Yeah, I’m in.'”
At the time, Turner said he’d just gotten an advance on his second album from his record label.
Before making a decision, he thought back to a piece of advice he’d once gotten from a business music advisor. “‘If you ever make any money from music, buy a home,'” the advisor told him. “‘Get settled. Don’t just go and waste it.'”
Putting aside his reservations, he and his three friends did the deed and bought the hotel for 250,000 euros, or around $243,000.