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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure what you’re describing is a reverse mortgage. It sounds like a regular mortgage in which your brother bought your parents’ house with a direct loan from them and was making monthly payments on the loan.

And, yes, it does sound as though your mother insulted your SIL in a roundabout and oblique way. I’d be insulted, too, if my MIL told me a story like that as part of her reason for canceling the sale of the property. Your brother sounds like a good man who is standing up for his wife. 
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It also sounds like your parents are trying to use money and assets to control your brother’s behavior.  I onced asked my dad for a loan (to buy an expensive bike in college), he told me family doesn’t lend money to each other and whipped out a checkbook.  I was so embarrassed!  I felt like a little kid asking daddy for a new bike, except I was a 20 year old adult.  I’m sure he would have been happy giving me the money, but he raised me to stand on my own two feet once I got to college, so it felt weird and backwards for me.  I didn’t accept and worked extra hard at my summer job to buy my bike.[/quote]

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