My MIl passed away this summer, she lived with my SIl, who neither my hubby nor or I particularly got along with, she's very difficult. We did not discuss, but looked up online, the status of their shared house- it was my MIL's years ago, at some point in recent years she sold it to my SIL for $1. We did not ask/discuss this with SIL as she is so hard to deal with, but were relieved- the house is a dump, septic would need to be brought up to code to even sell, if we had ended up co-owning with her we KNOW she would be at us with her hand out all the time, saying 'it's your house too'. We have our very own house to worry about and pay for. So, win-win, she owns the house she's lived in 20+ years, we don't have to worry about the financial end of it.
Just found out she's been telling all the relatives in Europe that we're trying to kick them out of the house to sell it and trying to sell off all her Mom's things. WHAT? Nothing farther from the truth, haven't even spoken to her in 3 months due to the strain between my hubby and I and her, spoke of selling off furniture when after the funeral she ASKED us to go back to house to discuss and ASKED for our help putting stuff on craigslist etc to empty out the 'in law' apartment. We never even discussed how the profits would be split, just said we would help her with it, never heard about it again. My hubby spoke to her by phone once, and she was so full of venom about our lack of attention to her in her 'hard time' (she NEVER calls us, always expects us to call her, seems to have forgotten my husband lost a mother in this, too) he hasn't called her since.
I am aghast she is pulling this, though not really shocked- it's just her largest nasty lie to date. We don't even speak to those relatives she told, we heard it from another, one who already knew from us the state of things. Our first reaction was to call her out on it, then we decided her lies didn't even warrant a response from us, though we also considered calling and sweetly saying 'We heard you're worried about this- rest assured we are HAPPY to not have any tie to that house, with the work it needs to even be sold, and glad it's YOUR sole responsibility'. I hope she lives in fear of a lawyer's letter every time she goes to the mailbox, even though it's never coming.
So angry and hurt when we, and SHE, know nothing like that has transpired. His mother left nothing, we have not even asked for any of the $1k+ 'overage' on the life insurance after paying out her final expenses, have not even prodded to get back the $400 we spent out of pocket for her urn my SIl promised she'd pay back out of the life insurance (she pocketed it, at the end of the day, instead of repaying us)...we have asked for NOTHING, and she is telling FAMILY these terrible lies about us trying to kick her out of the house and sell off her mothers things.
What a nasty, dishonest woman! Hubby swears we are DONE with her, I hope so!
Just found out she's been telling all the relatives in Europe that we're trying to kick them out of the house to sell it and trying to sell off all her Mom's things. WHAT? Nothing farther from the truth, haven't even spoken to her in 3 months due to the strain between my hubby and I and her, spoke of selling off furniture when after the funeral she ASKED us to go back to house to discuss and ASKED for our help putting stuff on craigslist etc to empty out the 'in law' apartment. We never even discussed how the profits would be split, just said we would help her with it, never heard about it again. My hubby spoke to her by phone once, and she was so full of venom about our lack of attention to her in her 'hard time' (she NEVER calls us, always expects us to call her, seems to have forgotten my husband lost a mother in this, too) he hasn't called her since.
I am aghast she is pulling this, though not really shocked- it's just her largest nasty lie to date. We don't even speak to those relatives she told, we heard it from another, one who already knew from us the state of things. Our first reaction was to call her out on it, then we decided her lies didn't even warrant a response from us, though we also considered calling and sweetly saying 'We heard you're worried about this- rest assured we are HAPPY to not have any tie to that house, with the work it needs to even be sold, and glad it's YOUR sole responsibility'. I hope she lives in fear of a lawyer's letter every time she goes to the mailbox, even though it's never coming.
So angry and hurt when we, and SHE, know nothing like that has transpired. His mother left nothing, we have not even asked for any of the $1k+ 'overage' on the life insurance after paying out her final expenses, have not even prodded to get back the $400 we spent out of pocket for her urn my SIl promised she'd pay back out of the life insurance (she pocketed it, at the end of the day, instead of repaying us)...we have asked for NOTHING, and she is telling FAMILY these terrible lies about us trying to kick her out of the house and sell off her mothers things.
What a nasty, dishonest woman! Hubby swears we are DONE with her, I hope so!
