Back in 2018 before my dad passed away me and him went on a little walk around some of his properties that he had owned. He owned 3 houses. He was talking to me how one day he was going to pass away and wanted to know if I would like to take up any of the properties. I had told him “the yellow house” was what I would be interested in whenever he was no longer here. Then he gets into a really bad accident and passes away.

A couple years later my mom decides that she was going to sell the yellow house but she keeps it secret from me and my brother. I end up finding out about what she had done because I start seeing my cousin over there more often and get curious about what’s going on. It turns out she “sold” him the yellow house. When I had asked her more about it she said she had signed away the title of the house to him in exchange for $14,000 that he pays her “whenever”, remodels the old bathroom at my moms house, and mows all the lawns to each property. Finding out about this I was furious and extremely upset. The house had a lot of potential it just needed some inside work as it was built but there wasn’t any walls up yet to make into separate rooms(id say a 3-4 bedroom), a two car garage, and enough room for a swimming pool and trampoline for the backyard maybe even a nice shed. I remembered as a kid growing up when my dad had bought the property and started working on it but it never got finished. I was really thinking mow on how much he must have worked just to buy the property of something that size only for it to be practically given away for nothing. This was never discussed with me or my brother about the sale beforehand. Sure it was just sitting property but it’s not like it was going to waste or rotting. Asking my mom more about the deal she said she didn’t know what my cousin was doing as she said he had told her that he was gonna give it to his daughter. It’s been a little over a year now and I had gotten really suspicious about the whole thing because it wasn’t my cousins daughter who was living there. It was a whole family. I had done more digging into it and finally got around to blowing up at my cousin about the situation and I guess what he told me is he’s renting the house to make the money back from putting my moms bathroom in and getting enough money to put a trailer house right beside it for me and my kids while my brother gets the yellow house. But, I have my doubts. I really just think he used my mom for the house just to make some money and that the house actually won’t be inherited and kept within the family.

And before anyone asks too, there’s nothing in his will about anyone getting any of the properties as his will was made in 2001. Before he owned more than one house.

Am I wrong to be THIS upset over this situation? I get that my mom ultimately had the last word but I’m still pretty hurt over the fact she didn’t talk to me or my brother about it first.