How Do I Get My Share Of The House I Own With My Mom?
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🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.7 | So seven years ago, I was asked to co-sign a house for my grandparents. |
| 0:12.1 | They put down the down payment, and then I became co-owner with my mother. |
| 0:18.0 | Now I'm at a point where I need to get out. |
| 0:21.8 | I feel like I'm at a different point in my life where the cost of living in Connecticut is sky |
| 0:27.3 | high and I have the ability to be mobile with my job and work in a different place where I can |
| 0:33.3 | build wealth. |
| 0:34.6 | I was wondering if you had any advice on how to get out of this. Wow. So you and your |
| 0:41.7 | mom are 50-50? Morally a third piece between my grandfather, my mother, and myself, yes. Oh, okay. |
| 0:51.0 | And you're co-signed with your grandfather and your mother? |
| 0:56.0 | My grandfather put the down payment. |
| 0:57.9 | My mother and I legally own it on paper. |
| 1:01.4 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:03.5 | So the two of you are on the mortgage and on the deed, |
| 1:06.4 | but morally he owns one-third because of the down payment. |
| 1:10.2 | Yes. |
| 1:11.3 | I see. |
| 1:12.7 | Okay. |
| 1:13.2 | And what is the house worth? |
| 1:16.7 | Online, it says $575. |
| 1:19.3 | And what's the current mortgage, yeah? |
| 1:22.0 | $2.40, $250. |
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