Jay has a very good relationship with his ex landscaping boss, Fred (Jay did landscaping for about 10 years with him during HS and college.) Fred is like a father to him and Jay is like the son he never had.
On Jay's birthday, Fred's mother passed away. Several people commented on the connection because Jay was also close to her. When they landscaped, Jay and Fred with have lunch with her everyday and Jay has kept in touch with her ever since.
Fred was the sole heir to her estate. Her house is about a mile from ours and in the same town as my in-law's. It's a great house with great features like an in-ground pool, cabana, fireplace, formal dining room, 2 car garage, super private property etc..
All Fred talks about lately, and it seems we talk to him daily, is that he wants us to have the house and that he'll do whatever he has to do. He shows us around and says "This is the baby's room, this is your pool. You might want to get new cabinets..." etc.
Tonight we're having our realtor look at our house since we did lots of work to it. We want to get an idea of what it could sell for. Fred wants to be sure we get we what deserve on our place. What baffles us is that he's said that he's made his decision and he doesn't want strangers in his mother's house and that nothing would've made her happier. He's already told the neighbor's about us!
This all just seems like a dream because our current house and this one are in completely different leagues. In fact, our lot is only 1/3 of the size of his house!
We know how much he loves Jay and that he is very wealthy, so maybe he really is being THAT generous as to let us have the house for very little money. He knows that we are just starting out and don't have an excess...
It's so very weird. June, my mother-in-law, thinks he's going to surprise us somehow or maybe he'll tell us that his mother left Jay the house...
Jay and I keep trying to not get our hopes up but Fred makes it very hard!
He's constantly "selling" us on the house by telling us how great it is and jokes that are mail is already coming there. He apologizes for some of the junk that's still there, assuring us that he'll clear it all out and that "his guys" will do all the landscaping before we move in and that he'll get a new pool cover! He had a neighbor that's a flipper approach him and it pissed him off. He knows Jay and I would take care of the place and not just tear it down.
I think his father had this home custom built in the 50's and this is all very emotionally driven.
Kudos to you for reading all that!
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