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WIBTA if I sold my son’s ‘forever home’?
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This is something that one mom learned the hard way after she allowed her son and his wife to move into her spacious house when both of them lost jobs last year.
The house had been reverse mortgaged so that the woman could care for her sick husband, who passed in 2019. As a condition of the mortgage, she had to live in the house and chose to stay in the granny flat while her son and daughter-in-law were there.
Unfortunately, she found that this had resulted in her son imposing restrictive rules on how she could use the house socially, not wanting her to disrupt the peace of his ‘forever home'. It led her to consider selling, but she wondered if she was in the wrong for that.
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People agreed that she was within her rights to move.
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65-year-old mom allows son and daughter-in-law to move in, considers selling after he berates her for having friends visit his 4350 sq ft 'forever home': 'I spent $15,000 fixing the house and moved to the granny flat'
Parental generosity towards adult children can prove to be a controversial topic. The crowd that maintains the best thing for kids is to expect them to fend for themselves after the age of 18 will often start foaming at the mouth at the prospect of a parent giving their adult child any kind of help. In reality, many moms and dads are a little more forgiving. While this can be a good thing, there are times when it gets taken too far or exploited.
While it is only natural to want to help out your children when they are struggling to establish themselves or have fallen on hard times, it is an unfortunate truth that some will see this as a free pass to act entitled at the expense of those supporting them. When it happens, it isn't the easiest of situations to get out of. Care is needed in this scenario.
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