To think he really should have finished this by now

[Longagonow96]

NC because I hate username search trolls.
Ongoing not exactly argument about DH having not yet finalised his late mother's estate. There's several hundred left in the Executors account largely because of some argy bargy about the collapse of Northern Rock back in 2008. Honestly he's not going to get any compensation that boat has sailed but he still feels sore about it because Gordon Brown and George Osborne something something 🤔

His mother died IN 1996

Aibu to ask WHEN the hell this gets dealt with if ever. If he dies with it still in progress do I and can I have to sort it.

OK a bit petty but really!

Not unreasonable. My DH and his entire family are so avoidant. They've left their family house abandoned and to rot since 2010 because nobody can bear dealing with the death of my FIL. My MIL as a result is essentially squatting in her brother's home since. Can't stand it, I want to go and clear the place up and fix it up so that it could at least be sold or rented out and my MIL at least has an income. Groan.

He dealt with my late mother's estate ( I was executor but he was formerly finance so comfortable with the forms, figures etc) inside 16 months!

Formerly working in finance

@Leahisleaving

Well at least it's not as bad as that I guess😳

Hehe exactly! I don't even approach the subject anymore because it's so difficult for them all

I hear you. My grandmother left her house solely to my uncle, not split between him and my mum and aunt (property goes to sons), and a combination of inertia and anxiety has meant he has left it exactly as it was the day she went into hospital to die, so it’s falling apart, damp, plaster falling off walls, slates off, the stairs unstable, her mouldering clothes hanging in the wardrobe.

She died in 1991.

He worries endlessly about it, and goes there (an hour or more’s drive from home) all the time, but has never lifted a finger to stop it falling into disrepair. And he’s a builder and carpenter. Now he wouldn’t be able, but he had all the skills to maintain the house since it was left to him.