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Your story is so familiar. When my father in law died, his 10 children sold the house and not without conflict. One evening my husband came home from a "family meeting" about the sale and told me an object was thrown at someone's head and the thrower was banned from ever stepping foot again in the target's home. They haven't spoken since and it's been 6 years. This is the theme of most family events involving someone's passing. One person always gets offended about not receiving what he/she thinks he/she ought to get and that subunit of the family falls away and won't ever speak to the other family members again. This has happened in my mother's family. She has lived in the same small town for 90 years and hardly speaks to anyone because of all the falling away of family members. It will be interesting to see how things go when it comes time to sell my mother's house. I have only one brother and we get along, but probably because I rarely see him as he lives out of the country. My mother will probably make me promise on her death bed to never sell the house to cousin so-and-so who lives right next door. The family is such a mess and that is the main reason I had no desire to stay in that town or even in that state. I will happily sell that house and be glad not to have to venture to that Podunk town ever again and hopefully someone will buy it. The town is one of those dying towns -- the local elementary school where I attended closed because of lack of children, the Catholic Church hasn't had a pastor for 6 months and cut back on Masses, the mall shut down. Why would anyone want to move there?
Well since people have been so sentimental - I posted a pic of the family mansion from 1951 to our family group chat
Started sharing memories etc.
I thought well, maybe we can pool our resources together, fix it up and keep it as a family gathering place. You know when someone comes to visit, they can stay there. We can have our Christmas, Easter and other celebrations there. What about it?
Crickets - so much for the sentimental value. I thought it was a good idea. There is plenty of space in the house. Plenty of space in the yard. I would say maybe 20K would do it. Nada.
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