ERD50
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Interesting - just a thought here, but it keeps nagging at me....
You say he insists nothing go in writing. I just wonder, is this a way for him to hold up his tradition, yet, in a wink-wink-nod-nod kind of way, to let *you* 'off the hook'?
That way he feels that he can say, yep, I kept the property in the family, I can't help it if they sold it, I asked them not to. Sort of lets him wash his hands of it, but like he tried to do the right thing?
I know that is kind of trying to get into his head, and it's kind of twisted, backward thinking, but it might be it.
If you are not comfortable with that, then you got other good suggestions, sell some to cover costs, try to gift it as a park or whatever. But if it's going to be a burden, then it is not fair to be put on you. Decline the gift if you have to.
-ERD50
You say he insists nothing go in writing. I just wonder, is this a way for him to hold up his tradition, yet, in a wink-wink-nod-nod kind of way, to let *you* 'off the hook'?
That way he feels that he can say, yep, I kept the property in the family, I can't help it if they sold it, I asked them not to. Sort of lets him wash his hands of it, but like he tried to do the right thing?
I know that is kind of trying to get into his head, and it's kind of twisted, backward thinking, but it might be it.
If you are not comfortable with that, then you got other good suggestions, sell some to cover costs, try to gift it as a park or whatever. But if it's going to be a burden, then it is not fair to be put on you. Decline the gift if you have to.
-ERD50