My husband and I “inherited” his mother’s house. She’s still alive. She won the house in the divorce, and when she remarried she didn’t want to live in it, and didn’t want to sell it, so she gave it to us. I am very thankful for such a nice house and no house payment, but it’s still full of her stuff… and it’s 5 years later!!! She is doing better about taking stuff with her each time she visits, but I am so desperate for more space! We have more stuff than we have floor, it seems, and it’s time to get rid of it.
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Lucky you. Did Mother give you a quit
claim deed or something so the house is legally yours? How about telling Mama
you have a friend with a truck who is willing to load her ‘stuff’ and bring it
wherever she would like? Or invite her
over and tell her you’d like her to point out those things that she’d like to put in storage or sell because you need the space? I know, easier said than done. Good Luck.
When she and her ex divorced, she removed her husband’s name from the deed and put her son’s name on it. So technically, it’s still half hers, although she wants to go ahead and put it in our names. We’re in no hurry. I suppose it could turn into a big fiasco in certain situations, but she’s really not like that.
We’ve moved all the stuff we need out of the way into the extra bedroom, but since we’re expecting a baby in August, we really need that room, now. She says she’s going to come up and move a bunch of stuff to her new home in June, so hopefully, she’ll stay on track with that. If she can’t do it, I think my husband is just going to rent a storage unit and put it all in there until she decides what to do with it all. We don’t mind paying for that since we’re kind of getting the house for free, you know?
Congratulations on becoming a Mama soon.
I apologize for being a pest about this but consider: If your husband’s mother dropped dead today, what portion of the
property would belong to her husband?
Also, one cannot remove someone’s name from a deed and replace it with another, unless of course the divorce decree spelled it all out. It’s good
that Mama will be with you in June so
you will have a month or so to get cleared out. Good Luck again and stay
healthy.
That’s a good point. Yeah, husband’s name was put on the deed during the divorce so that’s all good and well, but it’s a good point about her new husband… I doubt it would ever turn into a nasty situation, but it might be a good idea to go ahead and get that signed over legally just in case. It would be a good thing to do in case anything happens to us, too, really… that way at least the kids would have some resources.
Nah, you’re not a pest. :) Thanks for the advice!

