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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thanks, all for your insight on this; it’s really appreciated.

The money/sister selling her share isn’t really the issue at hand. Sister has essentially been living in our Moms house for free for the past three years anyways. I know we’ll eventually get the money for my share, but even if we don’t, DH and I will be fine financially without it.

What the sticking point is for me is the sheer amount of stuff that my sister has in her house. She has a four bedroom house, and three of the bedrooms and the basement are filled with stuff that needs to be donated or trashed. I’m talking about boxes of 20 year old credit card statements, old baby clothes from her sons, old laptops/phones that don’t work…you get the idea. My thinking is that it’s easy for her to keep all this stuff, because she has the space, so if she downsized, it would force her to get rid of some of this stuff. We’ve tried many times over the years to help her get rid of her stuff, but it’s such a big task, that she gets overwhelmed before we can make a dent.

Her sons (one lives locally, one lives a 10 hour drive) would be more than happy for her to sell the house and downsize to somewhere smaller. In fact, the local son went to her house unannounced and started purging stuff that she didn’t need, which she wasn’t too happy about.[/quote]

OP-  I can tell you are concerned for your sister and she is lucky to have you.  Please know that even if she downsized by selling one of the houses, it wouldn't force her to get rid of anything.  She would fill up whatever space that was left in her house and then stack things in boxes on her front porch, in the car, in a rented storage unit, etc.  You can't solve this by talking her into downsizing.[/quote]

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