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Background: my aunt is the last living sibling of my grandfather. My aunt never married or had children of her own. She went to church, worked full time, and retired after 50+ years. She is elderly now, but healthy. After her own mother died (the original owner of home), it was willed to my aunt and her three sisters. As her sisters passed away over the years, they would leave their share of the house to the other sisters. She is now the sole owner of the home. 

When I was a child, I was passed around a lot. Parents were divorced, and my dad had weekends, but he was a taxi driver and had to work weekends. My aunt was my primary caretaker when my father was at work and whenever my mother would fall off the deep end (often). My aunt, with the financial contributions of my wonderful and hard-working father, bought me all my school clothes, made sure I had money for school pictures and lunch, took me to whatever sports and games I had and paid for all of that, got me haircuts, etc. (Essentially, he paid her child support, because my mother could not be trusted with money.) I could go on, but my point is that she’s always been more of my mom than my own mom. Instead of letting me go into foster care as a teenager after my father died and my mothers mental health took a real dark turn, she took me in for months until my mother could get her shit together enough to be a passable parent again. My point is, I love this woman, and she loves me, and after all she has given me, I am wary of asking her for anything else. The most I ask her for now is to watch my kids while I go get milk. 

Here’s the thing: I’m looking at inheriting what will (probably) be a significant amount of money, which isn’t that important to me. She has invested wisely over the course of her life, and done very well. What happens to the house is anyone’s guess: I’m going to assume I will have to sell it and divide the money appropriately. What I want, more than anything, is to have one tangible piece of my childhood. I want to grow old in that house, with some plants and a cat and my husband. I want roots. I want my children’s children to be able to climb the oak tree in her backyard. 

WIBTA if I asked to buy the house from the estate? I don’t want to ask for it outright, I don’t want to be manipulative, and I definitely don’t want to have to fight with strangers over the home that I spent the majority of my childhood in. Do I even have to ask her? I do NOT want to offend the woman who has given me so much, especially in the twilight of her life. Her happiness means more to me than a house. 