Family and money - help!

[notdawn]

I will try and keep this as brief as possible - but really would like some candid advice.

Towards the end of last year my sister and her now ex husband wanted to put their house on the market. Before they did my husband offered them full asking of the agents valuation. In all honesty he probably slightly overpaid.

My husband is a property developer and even when they were together my husband made it clear that if they ever wanted to sell to give us first refusal. We own the house next door (we don't live there) and with the land there was always going be a fairly decent opportunity to develop.

Anyway as it was going through my sister started making comments about how much money we would be making from the deal. The truth is she had and has no idea how much money we will or wont make as she has no idea about building costs, planning costs, marketing costs etc - and I just put it down to her going through a divorce.

Anyway the build was on hold for a couple of months - but the flats where our houses once were will be going on the market Monday and she has been quite vocal about how much money we will make and how we couldn't have done it without her.

AIBU - I mean she wanted to sell her house and we gave her asking price?

We are very close, our kids are close, I am not sure why she is being like this. I suggested to my husband possibly a smallish payment once they are sold - but he is saying absolutely no way.

Thoughts?

[jessstan1]

But apparently it is a novel concept, because so many people on here apparently can't understand why sis might be upset! A couple of posters have said that the only reason anyone could see the sister's point of view is that they must be jealous of the OP's wealth - literally no other reason for being able to understand why a woman might be hurt at seeing her sister profit from her divorce and developing her former family home.

Surely the sister knew that the op and husband intended to develop? Obviously that would lead to them profiting. If she wasn't happy with the idea she could have sold to someone else.

[Binswangers]

You've done absolutely nothing wrong. She's presumably benefitted by having no estate agent costs and having a relatively stress free exchange of her house. You paid asking price which is slightly more than it was worth.

You've taken a business opportunity which requires work to fulfill. She's just jealous. You shouldn't give her a penny. Just ignore all that guff about business and family etc

[notdawn]

Small update she came to the opening day today - and actually commented on how nice the apartments looked. She didn’t have to do that.

[jessstan1]

Sounds like she is getting over it, notdawn. Perhaps somebody else has made her see reason and if she now comfortable in her new home, all well and good.