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My husband and I built a multi-generational house with his parents. Now only less than about a year

and a half later, my mother-in-law has moved out and will soon stop helping with the mortgage

payment. So we will either have to have to sell the house

with very little equity in it or we will lose the house. She says she wants part of the sale

of the house. But how can I move forward without feeling as much hurt or animosity towards

my mother-in-law?

Um... hurt or animosity towards my mother-in-law. Could I venture a guess that before any of this was done or signed up for you, had a bad feeling about it?

Yes.

So you're really mad at yourself?

There's a good part of it that I am mad at myself yeah what happened

um so my husband and I um came up um to my in-laws with the idea to build a multi-generational

house um back in probably late 23 early 2024. His dad had had a

stroke back in 2008 and was in poor health. So we were talking and we talked about how important

it was for him to be with his dad when the time came, when time came.

And so we brought up this idea with them, and we were very clear.

We had a budget of $1,500 for our half of the mortgage, so whatever we chose has to fall within that.

It ended up, like with building, ballooning a bit and uh we ended up with a $3,600 payment,

um, rounding up. Um, so they said that they would cover, you know, whatever we could not cover

with the 1500. Um, we moved in in September of 24 and by last June, 25 my father-in-law passed away and it was

there as hurt as painful as it was to be there it was also I would never take that to me back

it was kind of what you signed up for. Yeah, that's good. Exactly.

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