My mom was all sad that they were selling the house and it was going to someone random and not one of the kids. Even though when I offered to buy it from them they scoffed at me and said I didn't have any money
My dad won't even let me build a mini bunkie house in his backyard because it would be inconvenient for his dog, but then expects me to come stay with him every few months when he has his various surgeries and needs a caretaker. My mom literally put some kind of stipulation in her will that none of the children can buy out the others and keep her house because "none of you would keep up the maintenance to our standards"
Caring more about the house over the kids is fucking insane. Have they always been like this? I’ve noticed the older ppl get the ruder and colder towards ppl they get.
Yes. My whole life. They are both narcissists who got into the housing game by pure luck. My mom through her third marriage and my dad through some kind of thing back in the 90s where he could use his Navy pension as a down payment. Neither ever saved, both smoked a pack a day, made terrible relationship decisions and drank a drive-thru coffee daily. But they preach as if they are serious financial gurus.
My dad is literally letting his house rot to the ground. I make enough to buy the house for a discount, have offered to renovate the basement for him and let him live with me for free for the rest of his life and he refuses because "I had to work hard to buy a house, I'm not buying one for you too"
Which literally makes no sense. I'm asking to buy it.
So the house in a beautiful neighborhood with a huge, spacious yard with a greenbelt in the back is just sitting there turning into a shack that the neighbors consider an eyesore.
My parents (from whom I am estranged) let their primary home fall into literal ruin (no roof, visible on Google Maps, must have been using buckets to catch rain while living there) and it was condemned and demolished to the ground by the city. The fought it in court for YEARS apparently, while it crumbled around them, and eventually lost due to neighborhood and city/township outcry.
Now they have a lien on the vacant parcel of about 3x its value, for the legal fees and demo. Sibling and I only found out about all this snooping online—googling township meeting minutes and aerial photos. Absolutely stunning waste.
Presumably parents are now living at their second home, and on the way to trashing that one!
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u/sipstea84 8h ago
Since I was 15.
Yet my parents think I'm a lazy piece of shit because I don't own a house as a 40 year old single mom. The "starter" homes in my area are like 500k.
I'm honestly exhausted.