Since I am the one that told the story about my parents leaving the house to me I will address what I can. If they need to sell their home because they need money then there will not be anything left which doesn’t bother me at all. I have told my parents that they do not need to leave the house to me, but I have not been able to change their minds. I have even asked why they don’t give me half and split the other half between my brothers, but they don’t want to do that either. That is one of the reasons why I insisted that they speak to both of my brothers about the will so this was all out in the open.
My husband received the family house when his mother passed away just a few years ago. It was a home that his father had built, but needed major repairs that would have cost more than $250K. My H sold the home and we paid the capital gains taxes on it. During the last 10 years of my MIL’s life the house was rented out and the money was used for the beautiful assisted living home then nursing home she was in. We were very fortunate that the rent from the house covered all these costs for my MIL. My H’s only sister had received the house she still lives in and a vacation home in another country from their parents years before… Many people asked after my MIL passed why H got the home and his sister didn’t get anything. In this case people did not know what my IL’s had done previously for my SIL.