She’s Planning To Sell The House She Inherited From Her Father And Give Her Sister, Who Has Been Living There, Half The Proceeds, But She Still Got Accused Of Taking Her Sister’s Home Away
This 55-year-old woman has a 47-year-old sister.
About 12 years ago, her sister’s then-husband kicked her out of their home when he found out that she was pregnant with another man’s child. Ever since then, she has been living with their father.
Throughout the past 12 years, her sister didn’t usually hold a job (in all, she probably worked for roughly two years), and she unfortunately spent all of their father’s savings. Due to this, their father had to continue working until he was a little over 80 years old.
Tragically, their father passed away several months ago, and she blames her sister for preventing their father from being able to retire and spend his last few years resting in his free time. Instead, their father had to work to support her sister and her sister’s son.
“Since she had been living with our dad, I spent about $50,000 replacing the roof of the house, fixing a mold issue, buying him a car (which she then stole and wrecked while drunk driving), paying for their gas, food, and multiple other things. I have attempted to avoid funding her, but it’s hard to while also helping to care for my dad and her child (he didn’t do anything wrong and doesn’t deserve to live this way),” she said.
In his will, their father gave her his home since he was aware that her sister wouldn’t maintain it.
Ever since her sister moved in with their father, she and her brother had numerous discussions about how their sister’s life would unfold when their father passed away.
To try to help her gain independence and responsibility, she and her brother would comb through job listings and help their sister obtain positions. Unfortunately, she always ended up getting fired due to tardiness.
Then, she and her brother attempted to set up a savings account for her and give her tips on how to save money. They also had talks with her to emotionally prepare her for the reality that their father wouldn’t be with them forever. She and her brother also informed their sister that after their father died, they would be selling his house.
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“All she could do was scream about how we were going to force her to be homeless. Well, the day sadly has come, and I am getting ready to sell the house. It’s worth next to nothing since she has destroyed it. In good faith, knowing she has no money, my husband and I paid for six months of electricity, gas, and water and gave her money for food,” she explained.
In addition to all of this, she explained to her sister that she was willing to give her half of what they would make on the sale of the house, informing her that she could choose to use that money as she wished.
Understandably, she’s frustrated with her sister and doesn’t even want to see her anymore.
“Instead of being grateful, she screamed and cried about how I was ‘taking her home away’ (please note that I also grew up in this house, as did my brother). She said I should continue paying for all the electricity and maintenance since it’s ‘my house,’ and she can continue to live there for free. I thought, given that she’s put zero dollars into the house, has substantially decreased the home’s value, has lived for free the last 12 years, AND has burned through $50,000 of my money with the majority of that going to the home, my offer was more than fair,” she shared.
Since the thousands of dollars she spent came out of her own savings, she obviously wanted to try to recoup some of that money through the sale of their father’s house.
Now, she has no idea where to go from here. She’s terrified that if her sister doesn’t get her way, she will come after her and potentially cause her bodily harm.
She estimates that if she follows through with giving her sister half of the money they make through selling the house, it would amount to about $40,000. She pointed out that that was considered a lot of money in the tiny town where their father’s house is located.
Tons of people have that much money or less when they’re just starting out on their own. When she graduated from college, for example, she had a lot of student loans and nothing at all saved up.
Do you think she’s making the right decision by selling her father’s house?
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