Can you give away your house?

sdooley

margaretclare wrote: »

I am always amazed by people who say they want to give away their house. Where, pray, are they going to live?

This is a huge step to consider. Often there is a 'hidden agenda', and reading post # 1 again I am not sure who is proposing this step, whether it's Grandad or the OP. Grandad is aware that there are repairs, redecoration, modernisation even that needs doing, but he lacks the readies to get them done. Was his suggestion 'I'll give the house to you and you can do it up, after all it'll be yours in the future' or was it the OP? Am I becoming impossibly cynical? Why can't I believe any more in the 'milk of human kindness'? Probably because all that I see and hear in this wicked world engenders scepticism. I didn't use to be like this, but then, maybe I was impossibly naive in those days and have learned a lot from DH, who is the world's worst self-declared 'born again cynic'.

Absolutely agree and I hinted at this by saying to the OP that it would be bad for his gramps if he didn't own his home because what happens if he needs to sell up and move elsewhere?

If the OP has the cash he could lend it to Gramps. It wouldn't even be unfair to roll up interest on the loan. If he doesn't have the cash the best bet is likely to be equity release.

consultant31

wise_fool wrote: »

What exactly is your question then?

With regard to courtesy, perhaps you could remind the rules to your friend that you rushed to the assistance of:

Or do the forum rules not apply to them?

My question was posed in post 24. Basically it was rhetorical since I didn't expect you to answer!

The forum etiquette applies to all of us without exception.

You seem a little obsessed about a supposed friendship between myself and McKneff - I don't know the person, and I certainly didn't "rush to his or her assistance".

I shall bow out of this thread now as this bickering isn't helping the OP at all.