Closing in ... on closure

So, it's June 11 - and we're possibly 3 weeks out of selling 23 Douglas Drive.

I hope and pray that is the case, but we still don't have documentation to say that is really so. And there's no reason we shouldn't. I think the buyers (who are the PERFECT family to buy our parents' house) really want it and are qualified buyers.

What's not right is ...

1. Our realtor is an asshole and has been completely incompetent in this transaction. 7 weeks and we still have not signed off and finalized the home inspection issues.

2. The attorney is clueless on how the deeds and trusts will impact the sale.

3. Phillip has been the solo communicator with the realtor - when neither one of them is in charge.

4. Freddy has been mostly absent during this process - and as particularly ignored me.

5. The home inspection "repairs" have not been finalized - and I am not inclined to agree to pay for the questionable items identified as needing remedy. We've already been through this process - and done more that $100K of repairs to the house and property (not counting the carrying costs for two years).

6. It's all about Phil wanting his inheritance. Hell, he's already planned a celebratory week with his children at the beach the week after the scheduled closing on a house that doesn't even have a ratified contract. Talk about "counting his chickens" ...

It's a hot mess from where I sit, but I am just riding it out.

The fact of the matter is there will not be enough money in any one account for my brothers to receive their inheritance. Dad is the one who changed his will to give them each $200K, but his funds won't be sufficient to give them that amount.

Our mother owned half of the house - so "her" half will go in her account (well, technically in the Howland Family Trust) - and Dad's half will go in his Trust account. There won't be enough money to pay off my brothers' inheritance, because it was our father's will that left them each $200K - not out mother's will.

So yeah. I can totally up-end their funds - and I think I will.