On 2018-08-04 3:01 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 8/4/2018 2:23 PM, Cheri wrote:
>
>> I figure it's a fair trade since they get the house free and clear.
>> That will pay for a lot of trash hauling as well as pizza and beer for
>> the helpers. I have given my "valuables" (to me) to my kids already.
>
> If I wasn't responsible for my brother's getting a share I would have
> given the place to charity.Â* Was not worth it to me, all that work and
> aggravation.
>


Could your brother not have been responsible for getting what he wanted
out of it, which would have meant helping you out? When my sold the
house and moved to a condo she told my brothers and I to come and get
whatever we wanted because she had to get rid of a lot and was counting
on us to empty the house of everything but what she needed for the
condo. The oldest, the only one who lived in the same city, never
showed up to help. When the youngest, who lives almost three hours away,
came to get what he wanted and to help, he called the oldest three
times. He kept saying he was just leaving, but he never showed up.

Months later his wife whined that he never got his fair share of our
father's estate. Tough shit. It wasn't willed to him. Everything had
been willed to our mother. She had given him a chance to come and get
what he wanted and he had been asked to help her clear the place out so
she could move.