My siblings and I are all in our 50s and early 60s and we're trying to decide whether to sell our parents' house now or hold onto it as an investment, but really we're all worried about our own retirement security and nobody wants to admit that's what this is actually about. We keep framing it as honoring our parents' wishes but we're all just scared about having enough money.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is using inherited assets to negotiate their individual financial anxieties without naming them directly.
“Where Are You with Money in your 50s and 60s — the pre-retirement decade?”
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