My aunt can go F$&@ herself
Backstory: my grandparents moved and bought a house in the same town as my parents 13 years ago. My dad is one of 5 siblings, two uncles live in state 70+ miles away, one uncle lives out of state, and my aunt lives in England. Since my grandparents moved, my parents have cared for them as they got older and my grandfather passed away in 2017. They never put him into a nursing home, he was on hospice at the end and my parents moved into the house with them to provide around the clock care before he passed. My parents have helped them maintain the house over the years doing anything my grandfather was no longer able to do. My grandmother has developed dementia and after my grandfather passed, was no longer able to stay in their house alone; she wouldn’t remember to eat, take her medications, or go to the bathroom, etc. My parents have their own house as well, so they moved my grandmother into their house and my brother (28) moved into my grandparent’s house to maintain it. He doesn’t pay rent, but he takes care of all of the household bills aside from the taxes. My parents provide around the clock care for my grandmother and she is never left alone (if they want to go somewhere either I or one of my siblings goes over to care for her. My aunt and uncles do nothing when it comes to her care.)
My grandparents gave my parents power of attorney years ago after they moved as they were the closest relatives in case of emergency. My grandparents’ will states that when my grandmother dies, the house is to be sold and split equally between the five siblings. My parents recently went to see an estate lawyer who recommended that since my grandmother is no longer living in the house, that it be sold because if they wait until after she passes it has to go through the courts and the estate will be made to pay capital gains taxes, etc. My mom had a realtor come in and do an assessment of the house to determine what they could sell it for in its current condition. It needs paint, carpet, all the normal things you would update prior to selling. The realtor said they could expect to sell for $180k and after all the fees the siblings would see $167k to add to my grandmother’s estate (it still won’t be distributed until she passes.)
My brother wants to buy the house, and has offered to do so for $175k allowing the siblings to skip the expense of a realtor, all that would come out of the proceeds are lawyers fees which my brother and the estate would split. He would also buy it without them having to pay to have it updated prior to selling, that way he can update it to his liking himself. It would mean the estate would get MORE than the $167k that the realtor estimated. My mom sent all the information to the siblings.
My aunt video chatted my parents from England to tell them that they are trying to screw the other siblings out of “their money”, that my parents were never asked to take on the responsibility of caring for my grandparents and the house so if this is stressful for them it’s their own fault, that maybe it’s time to put my grandmother into a nursing home even if that means draining her estate to pay for her care, and that if they don’t list the house for $240k that she will be suing them to gain power of attorney over my grandmother and do whatever she wants with her and the estate.
My aunt can go fucking FUCK herself as far as I’m concerned, thinking that she can treat my parents this way and give them a big middle finger for everything they’ve done for my grandparents over the years. She was just in the US for twelve weeks and could only be bothered to spend one week in state visiting my grandmother. SHE DOES NOTHING, her brothers DO NOTHING, and she thinks that she can bitch my parents out about this? FUCK. HER.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.