Well, they have a pre-nup and if he dies I get the house. They already sold my mother's house (which I would have also gotten,) to pay off all the debt due to her extravigant spending. (This makes me mad, we were going to move into that house after he died and rent the one we're in... or let my mil live there for cheap, you know?) She is a classic gold digger except she's and older woman now. And the man she chose to "gold dig" (my dad) was barely even middle class income when working, and retired....

It's a long story. But if they sell the house it's a loop-hole in the pre-nup so she would get all that money.

The apartment hunt is going terrible. I have 28 negatives on my credit report (I pulled it to see exactly what I'm dealing with. A lot of them are old. Like some of them should have fallen off, I think, because they are from like 2001.... Although apartment actually told me my credit score which turns out to be 521, which doesn't seem like it's that bad? So we keep getting denied.

So the plan was to take the tax money and pay a huge chunk of rent. But my husband and I talked it over yesterday. And we've decided to stay. But, only on the condition that I pay a full year of rent (which is possible because it's cheap) and the property tax on the house with the tax money instead of a huge chunk of rent. In exchange, he needs to consider the house mine (and I'll pay the tax every year from now on) and have no more of the BS drama. No more snooping around, no more interrogating my 10 year old for "what goes on at mommy's house," and no more talking crap about my husband, and no more worrying about if MIL has to live there or not because we're the ones that have to deal with her, not him. My dad always says he would just give me the house except if he does he has to pay this huge chunk of taxes (like over $45,000) and that prevents him.

I've offered this before and he's turned me down. So, we'll see...