GeminiGemelo wrote:That really sucks.Honestly it sounds like that might be the better option at this point. But I'm not an expert in this sort of thing.
Hope you're all able to escape without, like, a bazillion in debt though.
One of the places that filed a claim is the funeral home who did my grandfather's funeral. Their bill is about $9K and that's only one of the things we'd have to pay off completely in order to even get this place in our name and not my grandfather's. I don't know how much the other claim is, but I do know once those are paid and the house is in our name, we'd still owe about $100K on it, and it's falling apart and has the mice... Meanwhile, it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $4500 for a down payment on the house down the road and another car, and that place doesn't have mice... So yeah, my mom and siblings and I are convinced we have to somehow get that house.
Since the claims were filed against my late grandfather's estate and not us personally, the worst they can do (if I understand right) is take his stuff from us—meaning this house. So if we go to a different house, we just have whatever debt was already ours, and the other house costs only $40K, not over $100K. We just have to convince my dad now that fighting for his childhood home is only going to cost us and convince someone to give us a loan to buy the place with...
Yay.
