Three brothers<\/a> inherited their late mother\u2019s lake house from their father, who is now declining and no longer paying taxes or maintaining the property.<\/p>\nOne brother wants the others to sign over their shares so he can mortgage the home, renovate it, and move in under the guise of caring for their dad.<\/p>\n
But the plan would cut the others out of any future ownership.<\/p>\n
Mom passed away years ago. Dad left us and his 3 sons the house on the lake. in 2008.<\/p>\n
Now he is in decline, refusing to pay the property taxes, bouts of dementia, wasting what money he has every day. Letting the house fall apart.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s obviously time to transition to assisted living.<\/p>\n
Definitely.<\/p>\n
My brother wants us (his bros) to sign our shares of the house over to him now.<\/p>\n
His plan is for us to sign it over so he can take out a mortgage, to fix the place up, and move in to \u201ctake care of dad\u201d, although hes still talking about finding a home for him as well.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like his language changes by the day. Kinda sus.<\/p>\n
He says he will give the house to his sons and a nephew when he passes. I get nothing.<\/p>\n
Hmmm\u2026<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think he should have to take care of dad, My brother has a house of his own, and family, and a business to run.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think he wants to take care of dad honestly. Dad needs professional care and is just going to get worse.<\/p>\n
Regardless, I think pouring more money into the house that\u2019s falling apart and giving it all to one person isn\u2019t the right way to go.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just supposed to trust he won\u2019t sell it for profit? Once its all remodeled?<\/p>\n
I told him I\u2019m not signing anything and he his lost his mind. Said he was going to split the life insurance 3 ways but not anymore.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m saying why not just sell the house, divide it up the way it was intended, and find a home for dad?<\/p>\n
Now readers are debating whether refusing to sign is selfish\u2014or simply the only way to protect his share of the inheritance.<\/p>\n
This person says OP needs to contact an estate attorney STAT.<\/p>\n
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This person has concerns.<\/p>\n
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And this person offers the most practical advice.<\/p>\n
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Family homes can bring people together, but sometimes they just tear siblings apart.<\/p>\n
If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don\u2019t hold up their end of the bargain.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pexels\/Reddit Three brothers inherited their late mother\u2019s lake house from their father, who is now declining and no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[24315,114,268,9555,85,46,19612,266,267,9479,3494,3123,46902,46903,16433],"class_list":{"0":"post-64014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-aita","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-house","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-lake-house","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance","17":"tag-picture","18":"tag-property","19":"tag-reddit","20":"tag-sign","21":"tag-sign-house-shares","22":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}