Realtor.com
By Julie Taylor, January 16th, 2025
If you and your siblings are on track to one day inherit your parents’ home, take heed of this cautionary tale, and learn how to avoid the same fate.
In a Reddit thread, a poster recounted how when his mom passed away in 2018, she left him and his two siblings her house.
“My siblings wanted to sell the house and split the money,” the anonymous poster says. “I wanted to keep the house. I asked them if I could buy them out.”
They agreed. So the siblings got the property appraised, and he paid them both a third of the home’s current value.
His brother allegedly spent his share on sports cars, nights out, and exotic vacations; his sister splurged on a boat.
In 2023, the man and his wife decided to move to be closer to her family, and they sold the house. By then, the price of the home had tripled.
Now, both of my siblings think that I owe it to them to split the profit I made. This has become really toxic and most of my family is on their side. My mom’s sister says it would have broken her heart to see her kids fight like this and I should split the money with my siblings. My dad’s sister thinks I should buy them off so they shut up.
