Parents offer to buy our house

Scully38

As others said, don't do it. Especially if your wife has siblings. Think of all the hassle associated with those problems, jealousy, falling out because of favouritism.

Doing what your suggesting with a family member really is the worst thing you can possibly do, trust me, i'm having a nightmare with my sister over my mother's house. In laws will be even worse.

As others have said there are too many variables to think of, and how many pro's are there in this? Maybe one?

The down side of doing this with a family member is huge, certainly outweighs all the pro's, but do yourself a list of all the pros and cons and see what outweighs what.

If you read through all the threads on here relating to family houses, people that split up, problems with renting, landlords etc, you will see what a disaster this would be and you probably change your mind, but do take the time to go through the original posts and replies and you'll see that doing this would result in a world of hurt for you.

Take the time to sit quietly without the missus and weigh up pros and cons, you'll get your answer. Here there is an awful lot of experience of people who have been through it, know about it, and are aware of people who have had problems with it. They know their stuff and have nothing vested. So if they're saying no, you need to listen.