Left The House In My Late Mum's Will But My Sisters Refuse To Sell It-HELP!

jouef

annbarbs wrote: »

Try reading this thread again.

Annbarbs, if you intend pursuing a dispute over this will, that is the sort of response that will lose you your friends and supporters as well as losing you the case. I asked what evidence you have for your sisters delaying or refusing to sell, and your thread provides none. Examples of evidence would be something your sister(s) have said or written, something your mother said or wrote when she was alive, or the passage of, say, nine months without the house appearing for sale or sold in an internet search.

Without evidence you have no case. There are practical steps you could take to strengthen your position for the future, without asking your sisters or entering the house:
Check the house - do you have any photos from before mother's death? Take some now from the outside to compare. Has the house been altered, tidied up or improved as if for sale? Does it look lived-in from outside, eg lights on, curtains drawn?
Make a list of your mother's likely property and effects - do you have any photos, letters, receipts or memories? Did she have any antiques, jewellery or car(s)? Cash under the mattress? Could there be anything they have not told you about or even hidden from probate?
Who knew your mother and could assist you? Who can you rely on for an independent viewpoint, for support for your mental health and to be there so you don't have to go it alone?

Perhaps also have a look at the several reports on the internet about siblings spending their entire inheritance on court, solicitor and barrister costs.

margaretclare

sort this out though a solicitors.
The only free service I know that might help me are the CAB but they would not take my case on.

I am not surprised that the CAB would not take your case on.

That is not what they do.

As the name implies, they give advice to citizens, point them in the right direction for solving their problems, but they do not 'take on a case' in the way that a qualified solicitor can do.

I used to be a trainee volunteer adviser with the local CAB. We were busy enough, under-funded, mostly volunteers, but we could not possibly have taken on a case in the way you seem to expect.

Really, this lengthy thread makes me wonder what world the OP thinks she's living in. She seems to have extremely naive and unrealistic expectations. I quite see that she is desperate to get her hands on her late mum's money and I hope it makes her happy when she gets it. But from my own experiences of dealing with bereavements, settling a deceased person's affairs, deciding on a house sale and putting it into motion, it doesn't happen quickly. The OP seems to be going over and over the same ground. No one here can give her the answers she wants so she's happy to accuse us all of 'lying'.

I rest my case.

missbiggles1

annbarbs wrote: »

Okay I will print here what the Solicitor has told me in writing in his letter to me.

Names Have Been removed by me as this is a public forum.
So no names.

Solicitors letter:

On the question of time scales, even if the property is placed on the market today, by the time a purchaser has been found and the sale completes, it is likely to be March or April before we are in any position to conclude the Estate. There are of course certain things which lay in the future which we cannot control. All I can do is to ask you not to worry unnecessarily concerning these.

I would remind you that there is a concept of the Executors year. It is reasonable for you to expect to receive the money from your Mum’s Estate at the latest by the 1st Anniversary of her death. I will obviously chase the solicitors and keep you advised.

Yours sincerely,
Solicitor.
(Name Removed)





Well the house is work 342k. At least that's what the High Court has valued it as.
But 342k is only an estimate, it does not mean we will get that when the house is sold.

It does not mean it will be sold for that either.
House prices or values increase or decrease also it does not mean that my sisters will find a buy to pay they.

So we may more money for the house.
We may get less money.
Or we may get the same money as estimated.

It depends who buys it on on what the estate agent will value it at.
If the property is run down or the estate agent does not think the house is worth that much then it will be sold for less money.
As I said and you pointed out
The 342k is only an estimate, it does not mean we will get that when the house is sold.


When I had my first consultation with my Solicitor I did ask him how much it is going to cost me if I agree to let him take my case on.
He told me between £2000 and £3000.
He never said it would be 114k.
But you and some poster on here are saying it will be or will cost me most of my inheritance.
That's 80k.

Well if that's the case that would mean that either my Solicitor has not told me the truth about the costs or some of the posters here have got it wrong.

In other words that means that one of you is lying.
The Solicitor or some of the posters here.


If that's the case that the Solicitor has lied to me about the costs and is going to charge me 114 but has not told me.
Then I might as well quit and let my sisters keep that house.
Since if they sell it I won't get that money anyway if the Solicitor gets all of it.

So how do I find out if the Solicitor is telling me the truth about the costs?

Because if it is true and the costs are going to be 114k then the solicitor should have been honest and told me before I hired him.

So what do I do about it. Because if the Solicitors charges are going to be 114k then I cannot sort this out though a solicitors.
The only free service I know that Might help me are the CAB but they would not take my case on.
The told me I would have to get a solicitor.
So now what?
As I cannot do it on my own because my sisters won't sell the house and won't talk to me as you know.

As that letter suggests that the estate could be finalised by March/April, if the house were put on the market and sold immediately, I imagine it must have been written well before Christmas so you must have consulted him almost immediately after your mother died.

At that point, he wouldn't have been aware that you would be the sort of client who would be contacting him on a regular basis, thereby running up the sort of additional charges that people here are warning you about, which is why he indicated the low price that you've mentioned.

I really can't see why you're in such a hurry, given that your benefits will stop as soon as you receive your inheritance and you'll be no better off than you are now. Your sisters will want to get the best price they can for the house so that the one who's been caring for your mother can buy herself a suitable property and the other one won't want to deprive herself of what's rightfully hers, just because you want to spite them, with no benefit to yourself.

You still haven't answered the many people who've asked you the question about how you know that your sisters are deliberately delaying things when you aren't in contact with them. That seems to me to be an important aspect of this that you're missing.

Mojisola

annbarbs wrote: »

But now my sisters solicitors have told my solicitor that their role was limited applying for the grant of probate and my sisters are not ready to sell the house.

And I am not happy with this at all as it seems that my sisters are trying to get out of selling the house.

missbiggles1 wrote: »

You still haven't answered the many people who've asked you the question about how you know that your sisters are deliberately delaying things when you aren't in contact with them. That seems to me to be an important aspect of this that you're missing.

It's possible that annbarbs has read more into "are not ready to sell the house" than was meant.

missbiggles1

Mojisola wrote: »

It's possible that annbarbs has read more into "are not ready to sell the house" than was meant.

That's certainly possible but she does go into quite a bit of detail

"I want to sell the house but the problem is that my sisters don't want to sell it because the other sister who used to be my late mum's carer does not want to move out."

if that's all she's basing it on.

margaretclare

missbiggles1 wrote: »

That's certainly possible but she does go into quite a bit of detail

"I want to sell the house but the problem is that my sisters don't want to sell it because the other sister who used to be my late mum's carer does not want to move out."

if that's all she's basing it on.

And as the sisters won't speak to her (she says) how does she know that?

missbiggles1

margaretclare wrote: »

And as the sisters won't speak to her (she says) how does she know that?

My point exactly - it doesn't add up and the OP doesn't seem to want to explain.

jouef

margaretclare wrote: »

Really, this lengthy thread makes me wonder what world the OP thinks she's living in.

Much of the (unnecessarily repetitious) length is people quoting whole posts when replying; at least the OP, like you, only quotes the sentence they are responding to. Bereavement, sibling rifts and our baffling legal system are each onerous on their own, but all coming together would test anyone's resilience.

Annbarbs, if you think you are living in a world where your sincere beliefs about what your sisters want or intend to do will be listened to without evidence, and that a fair result can be achieved by simply saying what you believe, please think again and arm yourself with some evidence.

missbiggles1

jouef wrote: »

Much of the (unnecessarily repetitious) length is people quoting whole posts when replying; at least the OP, like you, only quotes the sentence they are responding to. Bereavement, sibling rifts and our baffling legal system are each onerous on their own, but all coming together would test anyone's resilience.

Annbarbs, if you think you are living in a world where your sincere beliefs about what your sisters want or intend to do will be listened to without evidence, and that a fair result can be achieved by simply saying what you believe, please think again and arm yourself with some evidence.

If you don't quote someone's whole post, you tend to get accused of quoting someone out of context.

jouef

missbiggles1 wrote: »

If you don't quote someone's whole post, you tend to get accused of quoting someone out of context.

Agreed, that could be a problem. However quoting a long post in full can make it difficult to match the reply to the original point, equally damaging to the context. Some posters seem quite good at selectively quoting and then defining the term to which they refer. Shorter, selective quoting also makes reviewing the whole thread for context much easier.