Sometimes the heroes return home victorious—but what happens there is such that even showing up can be unsafe. Your kind neighbors, who have been eyeing the abandoned house for themselves for a long time, might just stab you in the back.
So it’s worth coming back carefully—preferably suddenly—definitely with a solid show of force and a well thought-out action plan. And only after you’ve discouraged those greedy neighbors from getting any ideas about other people’s property can you negotiate something with them—after all, they’re neighbors.