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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your post makes me so sad because I could have written it word for word. Our situations were nearly identical. Here’s what happened in a short summary. Years of talking and frustration for everyone. My parents started arguing more. We, the grown children and spouses, tried to “step up” as PP suggested and then they’d both turn on us and scream. None of us were local and we would take off of work and go for long periods of time to try and help with decluttering, cleaning, or try to put things in place to help with day to day. Our father increasingly wanted to sell and our mother dug her heels in worse. The fighting increased and the house became so cluttered it was difficult to stay there with the grandkids when we visited.

Everything changed overnight with a series of very serious medical conditions. Surgeries and ongoing treatments started. The stairs became too much and she couldn’t get up the stairs. [b]Overnight she agreed to sell and they did. Without telling us, they put the house on the market and hired a service to simply get rid of everything. They now live in a manageable apartment. [/b][/quote]

This is a good lesson... stay out of it... and likely they’ll be able to deal with it when the time comes. Or you know, they won’t. But there are always options... for example, there are companies that will buy houses and dispose of the “junk.” Obviously, you get pennies on the dollar compared to what you’d get fixing up and decluttering yourself. On the other hand, some people can’t take weeks/months of leave from work and their own children to accomplish this. It’s a trade off for sure. But there are always options.[/quote]

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