No Friday Page/Bad News Regarding House (Patreon)

I'm not really sure where to begin.

So, my mom bought 20 acres of land. When she died, that went to my step-dad, which would then later be divided up among him, myself, and my three other brothers. Earlier this year, the paperwork was finally filed to actually divide up that land, giving Leslie and I the 2.5 acres we inherited which kickstarted this whole house-buying thing. The reason this land was finally divided up after all this time was because my step-dad was in danger of getting foreclosed on. He was at risk of losing his house and all 20 acres of land, since it was in his name. This is something we just found out today.

A land surveyor was hired to split up all the sections of land. This way, if worse came to worse, my step-dad would only lose his plot of land and me/my brothers would be unaffected. Here's where the bad news comes in: The land surveyor did it wrong. He charted the map right and he placed spikes in the dirt in the right locations, but the actual numbers he wrote were off by 330 feet, which has basically led the local government to believe that our land has flipped. My land is now on my step-dad's house, and my step-dad's land is now 10 acres of woods. Because of this discrepancy, the bank can't accept it. We found out today that the due date on my step-dad's foreclosure was the end of this month. If this doesn't get figured out within 9 days, all 20 acres default back to my step-dad and the bank takes everything. We don't just lose our land, my family loses EVERYTHING.

I'm waiting to hear back from our family's attorney now. We were three papers away from being able to buy our house and then just...all of this. It's terrifying. All we can do is wait. It doesn't help that A) my step-dad doesn't speak much English and B) my oldest younger brother is an absolute piece of shit who refuses to sign or pay for anything (but still wants his plot of land) and C) the land surveyor is an old dickhead who barely knows how to work a computer. Everything is kind of against us right now, but...we'll just have to see how it goes.

So...yeah. I'm really sorry. No update on Friday. We're going to be spending most of our time driving, signing paperwork and...mostly panicking. Please, please wish us luck. Not even just for us, just for my family. My oldest younger brother may be a piece of shit, but my two younger brothers are just the best siblings I could ever ask for and my step-dad is a good person. I don't want them to lose their house. My second youngest, Noah, he's learning how to be a carpenter so he can build his own house on his land. It was the last thing my mom gave us. I don't want any of us to lose it.

I'm trying not to sound too dramatic but it's actually too hard to type and cry at the same time. Thank you all so much for your support. We wouldn't be able to get through this without you. You've helped us all so much and I won't let it go to waste.

I'll update you all as soon as we learn something.