I purchased my dream home! An old farmhouse in the country.

[Horse with no Name]

However, it was attached to family land and family issues, so, after a lengthy legal pursuit between us, the owners, and their extended family who refused the breakup of the property without hefty concessions from their family members...we are back to square one.

However, our house is paid for and we have decided that we will just stay here and do repairs.

Thanks to everyone for the tips that I find in this forum.

I have my "to do" list ready to go and appreciate a place to ask questions.

Thanks to all of you here.

[trud]

1. not sure what this means

Do you get the house but little land around it? Or are you in your "previous" home? You had an agreement with "the owners" but somehow others had a legal claim?

There are likely other places for sale without those problems.

[Horse with no Name]

2. I had posted previously about my dream house purchase.

The owners had this house moved onto property that was family owned several years ago.

We were buying the house with 10 acres.

The owners own 200 acres out of a large family inheritance of several thousand acres.
Nobody else lives anywhere in the vicinity of the property.

So...the only "deal" the extended family would go with to the owners to allow us to purchase within their homestead was for the owners to forfeit their right to 180 of the remaining 190 acres--thus leaving them 10 acres of the homestead.

We were already under contract when these things transpired...immediate family was okay with the sale, the problem came from the extended family.

At the end of the day, we didn't feel this was a fault of the owners, but also we didn't want to be involved in a protracted legal battle either.

We have been negotiating this crap for months.

We love the house but also don't want to move it off of the property and at the end of the day, that became the ONLY possibility.

It was pretty complicated and the whole ordeal has made me very cranky over the last few months.lol.

We are staying in our previous home. It's a whole heckuva lot easier.:D