21-year-old daughter fulfills late mother's wish and sells family home, distant mooch relatives threaten to sue her: ‘She wanted me to sell the house’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Mar 25, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

It's one thing to lose a loved one, but it's another to have mooching relatives come after you for abiding by your late relative's wishes. Some people never fail to surprise me, especially the entitled relatives in the next story you're about to read.

You'd think that one could put their selfishness on hold, especially given the situation at hand—but you'd be thinking wrong. Someone's hand will always be in your pocket and shared DNA doesn't disqualify anyone from being held accountable for suspicious, greedy behavior. The 21-year-old daughter in this next story decides to sell the "family home" her late mother purchased, but soon regretted purchasing. The distant family, however, convinced her mother to keep the house so they could use it for themselves.

Now that her mother has passed on, she is starting the selling process. Her relatives are not happy with this decision, to say the least. Scroll to read.

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  • It always comes down to money whether we like it or not. The daughter is not drawn to the family home nor is she interested in a relationship with these relatives, especially given the fact that her mother asked her to sell the home solely to get away from the relatives. Even still, she holds empathy for them given their reasoning… but that won't stop her from doing what's right for herself and her late mother.

  • "The family would start bothering her whenever she tried to sell or rent it so she just kind of kept paying for it.”
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  • "AITA for selling the family's house?"

    Hi! My (21F) mom bought a "family house" like 15 years ago. I was little so I don't really know the exact story, but I think we were supposed to live there eventually but something went wrong and she changed her mind. Since it is quite close to her
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  • childhood town, it is close to some of her relatives and they started basically using it as a house for the family to use whenever they wanted and it became "the family's house". My
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  • mom was admittedly quite unhappy about the situation but the family would start bothering her whenever she tried to sell or rent it so she just kind of kept paying for it.
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  • When we were preparing for her passing away, she told me she wanted me to sell the house so I wouldn't have to be tied to those people. She had already started renovating it and once it was
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  • done I would be able to sell it for a good price. Her lawyer and some of her friends have been helping me manage renovations and it only just got completed last year. Now we are starting the
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  • process of selling it, and unsurprisingly there are actually a few people interested. I honestly am not really involved and am trusting the people my mom told me to trust to handle that whole part.
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  • A few months after my mom passed away, I traveled to my grandparent's house to inform them that I would sell the house. I said it was my mom's wish and that it would take a few years but
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  • it would be done, and asked them to let the rest of the family know. I will admit that it was the only time I went in person to inform them. Every other time during those four years was either by
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  • text, two or three times by lawyer and through the workers or other mom's friends that were on the project. Last year when it was done, I asked them to stop. coming because it would go up for sale.
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  • Well, now there is conflict because my grandparents, two aunts, one uncle and three cousins have been sending me texts calling me a horrible person for selling the family house, and asking how could I be so cruel with them. Their point is that they
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  • lead very humble lives and that the family house is the one place they have to be luxurious and feel rich, and I don't need the money of the sale since I already have my inheritance. My grandfather
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  • even said that they will sue to claim me and my mom were insane on court and take the property from me, but my mom's lawyer said they have no way of doing that.
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  • I am just confused, I guess. I don't really consider them as family that much, my mom kept our contact with her siblings and parents as low as possible, but I also don't want to be an a hole
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  • to them. I offered for them to buy the house from me, but I am not willing to go lower than two million R$ of what the house is worth and they can not afford it. AITA here? It wouldn't be that much money per month to maintain it but it would be a bit bothersome.
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  • rockology_adam NTA. In every aspect of this (respecting your mother's wishes, not taking on additional financial or management obligations for people you don't associate with) this is the right call.
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  • Sell the house in good conscience and ignore and block anyone who is going to give you a hard time about it.
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  • CorrectDocument2 NTA. The house is not a "family house" it's your mom's house. You have a bunch of greedy moochers who want you to keep footing their vacations. No is a complete sentence and with their emotional blackmail and constant hounding you should really not even offer them to buy it.
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  • No_Philosopher_1870 NTA. I am sorry for your loss. If you were bequeathed the house by your mother, or you came to own it through right of survivorship, it's your house to sell anytime you want. You gave them the right of first refusal to buy the house at market price, and that the best that they can hope that you will grant.
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  • The family had the benefit of using the house for fifteen years or so. It tis understandable that they don't want to lose the use of the house, but that's their problem. If they give you a hard time, tell them that it was your mother's final wish that the house be sold.
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