Dash man
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My BIL retired from a union job last year after years of boasting how the union has taken care of him and he'll be set for life at 55 years old. He had been looking at homes on the Internet, hoping to find a good deal near a beach in Florida. Satisfied he could find something he's like, he decides to retire and promptly chooses to take half of his pension as a lump sum to pay for this house he wants to buy in Florida. After his shock at the high tax bill plus penalty he was hit with , he still goes down to Florida because of all the great deals he saw on the Internet. After a week of looking, he returns home in the grim realization that while you can get cheap houses in Florida, they need a lot of work and aren't in very nice areas. He realizes he can't afford to stay in his house in the northeast, so he rents it to his daughter just to pay the mortgage. Still not deterred about finding a place near the beach, he changes his focus on Delaware. He finds a triple wide that comes with a pontoon boat and a golf cart to roam around in. Afraid of someone else snatching away this great deal, he foregoes inspection and buys the triple wide directly from the owner that sits on a $780/month lot...owned by someone else. With the bulk of his lump sum distribution gone, and realizing this is still a stretch for him, he just knows his father and step mother will be happy to move in with them and contribute financially to help them out. He moves into the triple wide and within a week falls through the floor injuring his head and takes a trip to the ER. His father and step mother have no desire to move to Delaware after recently moving into a retirement home. After further inspection, the triple wide seller had arranged furniture to hide weaknesses in the floor and failed to mention that a small addition wasn't done up to code. The land owner is now threatening to have the triple wide condemned and force removal from his land. If he can convince the land owner to let him keep the triple wide where it is, it will take at least $10k to get it livable again. I feel sorry for my BIL, and more so for his wife, but all of this happened without any research or asking for advice from family. Some relatives do the dumbest things...
Any other good stories out there?
Any other good stories out there?