shared ownership

susan-p

3 years ago my brother and I bought a house together on the understanding that he would change his lazy ways, would not leave jobs unfinished for months on end this has not happened he changed our guest bathroom over a year ago and it is still not finished even when he knew we had people coming he choose to lie in bed all day and left me and my partner to cope the best we could he is now planning an extention to the house which I know from past experience will never be finished my question is can I stop him doing this, I would like us to sell the house and go our seperated ways but he refuses he is making our live very unpleasent there is no point confronting him as he just ignores me my partner has tried to talk to him and gets the same I just don't know what to do all my money is tired up in the house

dc197

Two whole commas.

If your question is whether you can stop him starting an extension on his own house, the answer is probably no.

What kind of tenants are you, joint or common, and if common what shares do you own?

susan-p

Hi we bought the house together and own 50% each we share everything all the bills the extention he is paying for as he says his rooms are not big enough for him, but in reality what will happen is he will start the project get fed up and it will remain a building site for years to come, he did this with his other house and then moved in with our mother till she died I don't wont him doing this to this propery

Mojisola

susan-p wrote: »

3 years ago my brother and I bought a house together on the understanding that he would change his lazy ways, would not leave jobs unfinished for months on end

this has not happened

he changed our guest bathroom over a year ago and it is still not finished even when he knew we had people coming he choose to lie in bed all day and left me and my partner to cope the best we could

he is now planning an extention to the house which I know from past experience will never be finished

my question is can I stop him doing this, I would like us to sell the house and go our seperated ways but he refuses he is making our live very unpleasent there is no point confronting him as he just ignores me

my partner has tried to talk to him and gets the same I just don't know what to do all my money is tired up in the house

You'll have to find some money to do it but I would consider going to court to force a sale.

Don't be so naive in the future!

susan-p

Hi |
I did not think I was being naive just giving my brother a decent home, as we had just come out off a very nasty inheritance dispute with our sister over our mothers death, which had left us both shell shocked, but you live and learn looks like I am heading for another. Thank you

Lioness_Twinkletoes

Some people just lurch from one crisis to another and thrive on the drama. Looks like you're one of those people.

Mojisola

susan-p wrote: »

I did not think I was being naive just giving my brother a decent home

I think it was naive to expect his behaviour to change.

There would have been ways to help him get a safe place to live without going 50/50 on a house.