[MUSIC PLAYING] Brought to you by the Every Dollar App, start budgeting for free today. All right, we've got an executor who is the youngest of three sons, all biologically related. And he has not put the house up for sale since he became the executor or had the will in his hand. And he's in communicato completely. Any relatives he has talked to in the past, they want to know something about the house. When you're going to sell it, and he says, none of your business, just stay out of it. So we're trying to get-- Who is this? How are they kin to you? He's my brother. OK. So you have to-- there's three brothers. Your youngest brother was appointed executor of the estate. The will, do you have the will? No, he's got it locked up in a strong box in his basement. Do you know what it says? What we have is his now ex-wife was sure-- she pretty sure she saw all three names as equals. OK, so he's just basically trying to steal the house. How long have you all been-- has this been going on? All right, at least since mom died in March of 2020. OK, so for five years, four years. Yeah, four and a half years, yeah. OK, so you live there free, and he won't talk to anybody. Nobody's living there. Nobody's living there. Yeah, it's been unoccupied all this time. No taxes at that paid until, I guess, the county finally figured out that we can send it to Bernie. But his wife, now ex-wife, has paid the $40,000 back taxes. So now the house is still stuck. We need to force him to get this over with. The house is doing nothing other than my best guess is it's storing his big boy toys in my garage. OK. So, well, there's an answer to the question. But before, I'm just curious, what's wrong with him? Boy, we're trying to wonder, he stopped talking to me probably 12 years ago. I don't know, but what's wrong with him? He was successfully self-employed, and finally, that dwindled because of the market. He went to work for a really good company in the area. I'm sure he's got a good pension and a good social security. Yeah, but that's not what's wrong with him. He's crazy. I know. Why did mom pick him? Let's see, the older brother, me, my life has been a whirlwind of marriages that failed. The brother in the middle, he was a little bit of a rebel. And so I never had kids in my brother's middle. Mama's boy was at home taking care of business, so she put him. Pretty much, yeah. OK. All right, well, I mean, the only answer to your question is one of two things. Forget it and walk away or hire an attorney and go before the probate court, which is the court that dictates wills. And they will force him to get the will out of the lockbox, and they will force him, then, to execute on the will. And if the will says equal parts, they'll force a sale of the property. OK, but there's a whole lot of expenses as far as-- Oh, yeah, you're going to have legal fees involved, sure. Oh, yeah, well, we've got lawn fees, snow fees, and, you know, the property just probably just kind of have to eat those, right? I'm sorry. These are liens on the house from the city doing the work. No, no, it was all private contractors. OK, have they taken liens on the house? No. Who's paying it? Uh, Bernie was. Who's Bernie? The youngest brother. OK, so he's been paying to keep the house up. Maintenance wise taxes, he never paid-- I got it. OK, so what's that got to do with dragging him into court? He got the yard cut, so what? Yeah, but that's coming out of our portions. We don't like that idea. No, maybe. Maybe not. Right now your portion is zero. Yeah, yeah, so I mean-- But him being an executor, he's going to say, no, we're splitting it three ways for the 10 years that I've been in control of. Now you're creating a storm. No, he's not been in control for 10 years. He's been in control for four years. Yeah, so mom had been in nursing home for five years prior. Yeah, but that doesn't mean he's-- that's his problem. OK. He's the executor. It didn't become your problem until four and a half years ago when she died. Right. Yeah. No, can the courts hold the beneficiaries that are not executors-- Responsible for what? I don't know if I'm getting this through, not for not twisting his arm. No, no, no, there's not anything. The judge is going to look at this and go, Bernie, son, sell the house. It's going to be pretty simple. OK. Now, since this is so-- Now, you spoke the file these worlds of in, what? 30, 60, 90 days. Yeah. All right, so now-- It's not invalid. Go get a lawyer. Oh, definitely. Alex, just go get a lawyer. They'll tell you every bit of this, OK? But you spend nine million calories analyzing this over the last four and a half years, and you've done nothing about it. Time to be a man of action. Either drop this, no more rent-free in your head, and walk away and forget it, or get a lawyer. This week, get a lawyer. File something next week. Wake old Bernie up. Time to give him a little bit of a cold shower here. Go to Walgreens today, and get a yellow pad, and write down all of these questions that you have. What about this, and what about this? Write them all down. And ask the lawyer. Ask the lawyer. Every single question you could possibly imagine, which, by the way, 85% of them, are you creating stories in the future trying to solve in the present, which is a waste of your time. But go write them all down, get them out of your body, and go solve this problem. I think you're trying to avoid the fight. So, I think, like Dave said, walk away. Drop it, or do it. Or go get on it. Stay in the middle, stay in the middle of the sewer patch. I mean, you're standing neck deep in the septic tank, spiritually, man. Get out, man. Yeah. It stinks where you are. Get out, get out, get out, and walk away, or get out, and sue old Bernie. One of the two, I don't care. Either one's fine with me. You'd have good reason to do either. But sitting where you've been sitting for four and a half years, let me tell you. If it's me, guys, here's how this goes. You got four and a half minutes, not four and a half years. Well, maybe four and a half months, okay. But not four and a half years. I mean, mom just died, right? I'll give you a minute, okay? But, you know, you're gonna, they hope, let me tell you what an executor is. It's one who executes. That's where the word comes from. They are not in charge. They do not get to make up new terms of the will. They take the will and they have to do exactly what it says. And if you don't like what it says, be mad at the dead person, not the executor. 'Cause the executor's job is to execute what the piece of paper says. They're not allowed to do anything else. And Bernie, God help him, is not doing this. So, Bernie's getting ready to execute 'cause you're getting ready to execute on him. Here we go, baby. So this works. 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