I have thankfully moved on from my initial fury at my grandmother’s request to essentially take care of my mom’s house for her. I have decided I will address the plumbing issue as that could lead to a more serious issue such as mold but I am stepping back after that. If asked why I will be honest with my grandma. There’s just too much wrong from years of neglect that if my mom isn’t planning on moving there’s no reason to do anything. Especially because if we did, and trust me it would be tens of thousands of dollars to fix all the damage, she would just neglect it again and it would all be for naught. So if there is a dangerous issue I will help but everything else is out of my hands.

In all honesty the best thing to do is for my mom to rent an apartment in an apartment complex and sell the house to one of those companies that buys houses for cash. Let someone else deal with flipping it. It’s actually a nice sized house in a desirable neighborhood so if someone wanted to take on the chore of completely renovating they could get a pretty penny. But I’m certainly not going to be the one to cajole my mom into parting with her precious possessions (literal junk). And I’m also not going to convince her to move. She’s mentioned it but I know she won’t. She gets paralyzed by changes and decisions. She can’t even manage to pay her bills on time or get regular car maintenance. Her car has been out of inspection for eight months. Her car was out of registration for eight months as well and it wasn’t until she realized if she got pulled over she could have her car impounded that she actually did anything. And even then I had to make the appointment for her, AND I had to find somewhere other than the nearby city because she’s scared of it. It’s ridiculous.

Anyway. The house we're-trying to get was inspected and there were easily fixable electrical issues. But there was also termite damage. I know the sellers know about it because they put in our contract that they would only pay for $750 of repairs. But fortunately the inspector said it was relatively minor and shouldn’t cost too much to fix anyway. Just a matter of reinforcing some floor beams. I had a dream that the sale fell through because of it. I won’t relax until we close (if we do). I’m not allowing myself to think too much about decorating ideas or anything like that. There’s another house that just went up for sale near my son’s school too but I’m very leery of that one. Only 190k for a three bedroom, two bath house? And no inside pictures? Sounds suspicious to me. Especially for the neighborhood.