What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Connecticut
I will try to try and make this as brief and descriptive as possible here it goes. After getting married my wife did not want to leave her mother alone. She is not married and my wife does not have any living siblings. After much discussing back and forth I had agreed. Now we had no lease agreement but paid every bill there was in the house minus the mortgage. We paid her auto insurance and cell phone bill as well as all of the groceries for the house and all of the utility bills (Water, Gas, Electric, Cable etc). All of this was equal to or greater than the monthly mortgage payment. So to make life easy we paid all that and left one payment for her. This to me would be a normal tenant/landlord agreement and had she wanted to pay some utility and we put in for mortgage as a rent then I would be fine with that as well. We offered to even pay the taxes on the house but she refused as she paid from an equity account I believe.
Now, Here is where my dilemma is. Since we are family I had also made improvements to the home with my wife. Prior to marriage I put in a new stone walkway and as a wedding gift a friend of mine did all new landscaping in front of the house. Once married we painted all the rooms with fresh paint, put new shutters on the house, maintained all of the landscaping over the years with new mulch, put all new wooden blinds in almost all the rooms including a very expensive one for big bay window, bought a new stove when it broke, paid for 1/2 of a hot water heater as well as a new washer and dryer, and I had hardwood floors put in downstairs in the family room as well as nice hardwood doors and frames with new trim. I would estimate that I have invested at least 10k+ for improvements into the house while paying the listed expenses’ above.
She is not a very nice person to say the least and got into a fight with my wife going on a year and 1/2 ago and they do not speak. We have been looking for a new house, but since we invested so much here we do not have as much as we would like and have a limited price range we are looking at. Since she does not talk to us we have to go by what we hear. It seems she is looking to sell the house. I would assume whether we have a house of our own or not. Should she sell the house my end question would be can I legally ask for compensation from the sale of the house based on those improvements I have made? I also need to mention that I do have all receipts for the improvements made as well as for the monthly bills we paid on the house to show that the improvements were not just living expenses.
I will try to try and make this as brief and descriptive as possible here it goes. After getting married my wife did not want to leave her mother alone. She is not married and my wife does not have any living siblings. After much discussing back and forth I had agreed. Now we had no lease agreement but paid every bill there was in the house minus the mortgage. We paid her auto insurance and cell phone bill as well as all of the groceries for the house and all of the utility bills (Water, Gas, Electric, Cable etc). All of this was equal to or greater than the monthly mortgage payment. So to make life easy we paid all that and left one payment for her. This to me would be a normal tenant/landlord agreement and had she wanted to pay some utility and we put in for mortgage as a rent then I would be fine with that as well. We offered to even pay the taxes on the house but she refused as she paid from an equity account I believe.
Now, Here is where my dilemma is. Since we are family I had also made improvements to the home with my wife. Prior to marriage I put in a new stone walkway and as a wedding gift a friend of mine did all new landscaping in front of the house. Once married we painted all the rooms with fresh paint, put new shutters on the house, maintained all of the landscaping over the years with new mulch, put all new wooden blinds in almost all the rooms including a very expensive one for big bay window, bought a new stove when it broke, paid for 1/2 of a hot water heater as well as a new washer and dryer, and I had hardwood floors put in downstairs in the family room as well as nice hardwood doors and frames with new trim. I would estimate that I have invested at least 10k+ for improvements into the house while paying the listed expenses’ above.
She is not a very nice person to say the least and got into a fight with my wife going on a year and 1/2 ago and they do not speak. We have been looking for a new house, but since we invested so much here we do not have as much as we would like and have a limited price range we are looking at. Since she does not talk to us we have to go by what we hear. It seems she is looking to sell the house. I would assume whether we have a house of our own or not. Should she sell the house my end question would be can I legally ask for compensation from the sale of the house based on those improvements I have made? I also need to mention that I do have all receipts for the improvements made as well as for the monthly bills we paid on the house to show that the improvements were not just living expenses.
