Holy cow, the saga continues. Suddenly the selling relatives 'appear' as if they had a sudden injection of morality and want to work things out and make things right. I'm sorry to sound jaded, but I just flat don't trust them now. I'm relatively certain that their lawyer had something to say about the matter when he was informed of what transpired over the weekend and explained to them that, due to what he has told me and sent to my attorneys, I could have their butts if I so desired.
Anyone who has read this thread from the beginning would know what my immediate reaction would be. However, I always try to make decisions based on thought and logic rather than emotion. Clearly, I am not doing anything here in a hurry. However, my wife's mother (who is unfortunately dying from non-Hodgkins lymphoma) is upset because her son (the scumbag BIL) wants to buy the home. He even admitted to intentionally and purposefully doing everything he could to stab me and his sister in the back and "steal the deal" from us. My wife's mother now would prefer me and my wife (her daughter) to go ahead and buy the home, since it's such a good deal, and then turn around and sell it for the same price to her son (backstabbing no morals scumbag) if/when he can get the money.
Dang. I'm really, really, trying to do the right thing. Still, I'm not sure I can do that. Doing so would force me to incur not only expenses (insurance, utilities, etc.) but incur lost potential rental income by asking me to just sit on the place and do nothing for a couple of months. Very sadly, I'm not quite so sure my MIL will still be with us in a couple of months. What's a guy to do? Everybody who knows me realizes my 'emotional' side of me would not only tell my BIL to go pound sand, but also hunt him down and give him the good old fashioned man to man beating he deserves. Don't worry, my rational side won't do that. My rational side has served me well in most all business and 'problem' situations. Still, at what point do you say "enough is enough"? How can I reward people who have intentionally tried to cause me financial and emotional loss when they keep stabbing and lying at each turn?
My options are 1) walk away and say I don't care what I agreed to because you all have lied to me repeatedly and tried your best to cheat me. 2) buy the house and let it sit vacant and untouched for a couple of months to see if my backstabbing BIL can come up with the money to buy it from me for what I paid for it. 3) buy the house, immediately start making repairs and renovations to the home to get it ready to rent and rent it. Tell my BIL "nice try" and tell him to have a good life. Fortunately, I think my ill MIL has seen the mountains of evidence that my BIL intentionally tried to screw his sister and me every way possible and completely understands if my wife and I are finished with him. She just asked me to not hurt him. So, if you're voting on one of the 3 above options, which would it be?
