Tenants in Common with Mother + Dispute over division of property

Jamiesmum

I'd just use the whole house as she is. Put key locks on your bedrooms upstairs. So do you have a bathroom each and soon to be a kitchen each?

What do you expect will happen when it comes to selling, bit odd to have 2 kitchens! I'm also a bit unsure of the general uses of things such as heating! Who decides?

Could you build a garage for extra room for yourselves? Or even or her? Personally I'd sell up and move on. Buy a run down place and replace kitchen with the one you already have. Run down house still be better than what you're living in at the mo! Half a house? Madness.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

If the OP thinks his mother is such an awful person, why on earth move in with her and pay off all her debts?

Obviously this story doesn't stand up to the scrutiny of a five year old.

Manxman_in_exile

lincroft - I was deliberately understating it when I said "pretty substantial"!


I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if house prices had risen 20 fold since 1970. Where I live £1 million would buy a nice house. But maybe we live in the wrong part of the country!


Even if the occupants all detest each other as much as this family I'd have thought the house should be big enough for them all to rattle around happily.

jtprobs

My mistake, they bought the house for 8k in 1970. I made a guess which was way off.

We had one spare room which could have been used as my daughters bedroom.
But the only reason I turned this into a kitchen was because my mother said she would return the upstairs bedroom to us, and move down, and we'd live separately. There is a downstairs toilet - and I even said I would pay for a small bathroom downstairs. But she refused to move down. She wants me to build new bathroom, rebuild extension as new kitchen in extension, and redo lounge floors, walls etc -then she says she will move down. But she's lies so many times - I cannot believe her. She will at that point ask me for money to go casino in return for moving down - but still won't move.

Our biggest mistake was building that kitchen. No room for a bed there.
I sleep on floor next to my wife and daughters double bed. Too small for matress - so just I top of a blanket. The

parkrunner

For heaven's sake if you're not trolling then just grow a pair.

Cheeky_Monkey

I'm embarrassed to admit that I fell for this BS hook, line and sinker

If by the remotest chance it is true, then I predict that the OP's wife will leave him for a 'real' man and he and his mother will live unhappily ever after :beer:

Senior_Paper_Monitor

AdrianC wrote: »

I can kinda see his point.

When a Tenant-in-Common dies, their tenancy of the property simply ceases to exist, so the other T-i-Cs continue to be 100% owners of the entire property

Err that's 'Joint Tenants' NOT 'Tenants in Common' !!

Manxman_in_exile

So you wrote £40 - £50k purchase price in 1970 when you actually meant £4k. Have you similarly inflated the mortgage and gambling debts you paid off? ie not £127k total but just 12?


If it is 127k have you paid this to get half of what sounds like a small 2 up 2 down terrace? Which now is in effect only 1 up 2 down?

Caroline_a

What does your wife say about the situation and how old is your daughter? (apologies if I've missed this bit)

Do you and your wife want any more children? That would have to put an end to it I think, as would your daughter going through puberty (I am assuming she's younger than that)

onlyroz

Can you move out and then rent out your rooms to Romanian immigrants? Or can you claim back one of the ground floor rooms while she's holed up in the upstairs bedroom? I'd suggest getting a big four-poster bed installed in her living room, and perhaps throwing a few big noisy rowdy parties.