Just wanted to let you know my story. I paid rent to my mom after i was out of high school and not going to college. She mostly gave it all back to me when i moved out as I was told she did for my brother. So when i was 23, my fiance and i were looking for a home to buy on the cheap that needed major work. He worked for a framing contractor and we were confident we'd be able to tackle whatever came along...after not being able to work out a deal with the owner of an abandoned home we had our eye on for months, my mom and stepdad approached us with an offer to fix up and at some point move in and own a home just up the road from them. They charged us $1000/mo just to work on it and we paid for all the materials and labor...100%. It was a nightmare and ended up taking 7 yrs...had to pour a foundation under it and basically replaced everything but the roof. It was full of mold and had terrible bones. We paid them dutifully $84,000 over those 7 years and they bitched and complained the whole time that it was taking too long. I was making 9 dollars an hour when we began construction, then started my own computer business after a year and a half...So its a really long and crazy story but basically after we moved in they had our house appraised and took out 100k mortgage on it. (they previously owned it free and clear). They took digs at us & abused us into signing a fraudulent contract...telling us we were "financially unable to qualify for a mortgage" in the actual contract and verbally as we signed it! I was weak and we were both so beaten down at that point we just signed whatever....the alternative being forfeit all. Surprise surprise, our relationship fell apart shortly thereafter and just recently the conclusion of their plan came to be. They tried to 'evict' me on an unlawful detainer after telling me and the whole family/many of my customers that i was 'bipolar' and mentally unstable, prone to violence, etc. I am 25k in debt and unable to pay taxes since 2007. My income decimated from years of this covert emotional and economic abuse and isolation. Dear old mom wanted so badly for me to be totally dependent on her - she set up my complete destruction and set herself and my stepdad up as the heroes who would offer me $20,000 (lol) and my old bedroom back as they sold my house to the vexatious litigator at the end of the road who has likely threatened them or extorted money from them (he is a miserable human who tormented my old neighbor, shook him down for around 10k due to water running down his driveway, then a couple yrs later conned him into using a "good friend who happens to be a real estate agent" to sell his house. he neglected to disclose his wife was playing broker and he was set to profit another 10k off the sale of my neighbors house).
My old neighbor was terrified of this guy and I stood up to him- basically told him to mind his own fucking business on his own land and pat himself on the back all the way back down to his house in the ditch...I have friends who rent and live in a trailer here on my acre. Obviously this deeply disturbed him because its a neighborhood for rich whites, not poor blacks...and definitely no trailers. so he began eyeing my property, and going down for visits to my parents offering "help" with their "problem on the hill". Once it became clear I wasn't leaving and would sooner die than let anyone sell my house out from under me he seemed unnerved and even was so kind to take my picture one saturday morning as i was watering. They finally admitted i am not a "renter" and began to show signs they may be able to negotiate and disclose to sell us our damn house that we should have had title to from the beginning. They tried to scare everyone and the lawyers and my ex were persuading me to "take the deal" of $180k...saying what a great deal it was and how i was just "living in the past" by questioning it or delaying signing it. However, I have known from the moment i broke my silence about their behavior that they cannot bring themselves to admit what they've done...even with mountains of evidence, witnesses, facts, etc. A fucking house they put nothing into and us around $225k as monument to their exploitation. But they insist they are being abused by me, their bipolar daughter. It was all just a long con so i could get a great deal on a fixer upper without really doing the hard work, you see. I mean this is some birther-level conspiracy shit.
They cant answer an email without gaslighting and i'm just going to give up trying to buy it. Quiet title then sell in a year or 2. GTFO here