Are We Obligated To Give Our Dad Money?
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today i was calling because i'm looking |
| 0:08.4 | for some guidance so a little backstory um my dad sold us or me and my older brother our childhood home back in |
| 0:14.8 | 2021 and like the stipulation was that he could still live on the property um and not have to pay |
| 0:19.8 | like rent or utilities and we my older brother and i live on the property and not have to pay like rent or utilities. |
| 0:21.9 | And we, my older brother and I rent out the house and we make about $3,400 a month in profit |
| 0:28.6 | off the rent. |
| 0:30.0 | And my dad right now, he's a single parent growing up and everything. |
| 0:34.5 | So he didn't save her retirement. |
| 0:35.8 | He lives off Social Security and he says money is tight right now. And he reached out to us and asked if we could give him $400 from their profit of their rent each month. And my older brother was like, sure, 100% and I just like did not feel good about it. I was like, I think we need to look at your finances first, like figure out why money is tight and then like draw some boundaries, so it's not like every year, like, oh, I need $500 and $600 and it add up and everything. And I recognize, like, none of this money is coming out of my own pocket. It's, like, purely just profit. And I don't know if I sound like a brat as a child by not just giving it to him. And so I'm just looking for guidance on that he sold you |
| 1:12.6 | the house yeah so we did a so he sold it to or we did a parent to child transfer and all he |
| 1:21.0 | wanted was 50,000 and then we took over the rest of the mortgage but like me and my brother are on title and loan. |
| 1:29.3 | Like it's legally our house. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.2 | And so at the time that the mortgage plus $50,000 at the time this happened was how much? |
| 1:39.9 | $450,000. |
| 1:42.0 | So you had a mortgage of $400 you gave him 50,000 cash? |
| 1:46.9 | Well, we did a cash out refinance and we gave him 50,000 from that. |
| 1:50.9 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:52.6 | And so the two of you have a $450,000 mortgage now. |
| 1:57.7 | And at the time that he sold you the house for $450,000, what was the home worth? |
| 2:04.3 | Oh, like 1.3. |
| 2:06.8 | Okay. Okay. So, and now he doesn't have any money? |
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