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Mike joins us in Washington, D.C. up next, Mike. Welcome to the show.

Hey, guys. Thanks. I hope you're doing well today. Absolutely. What's going on with you?

I have an 88-year-old mother who's getting ready to run out of money. It's like really run out of money.

But let me give you a background here.

My dad passed away 15 years ago, and he left her the 15-acre property that they were

living in.

And she stayed there.

The house is now, let's say, neglected, certainly dated, needs some work.

It's about 45 minutes away from me and where my brother live.

But in 2020, she had a little issue.

She's been having some medical issues.

She nearly burned the house down, had some issues like that.

So my brother and his wife convinced her to live in a nearby retirement home.

And I wasn't included in that process.

She didn't want to move, but she agreed. And she's

been there since August of 2021 and been paying the mortgage on the house, and she's been paying

for the retirement home. And that's a better burn rate of about $10,000 a month. I don't know

all of her finances. I ask her questions and she gets irritated. My brother's

kind of handling that, but without a power of attorney or anything, I basically have to steal

some of her mail and look at it, figure out. And what I got down to is that in her family

trust, all the money my dad left and her parents left her and everything. There's about $3,000 in cash left in that and about maybe $30,000 in stocks.

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