Hey y’all I’m searching for a new car for my wife and she’s absolutely in love with the rav4 so we came across this one, I’m not keen on the mileage but the carfax was regularly maintenance every 5k miles religiously. No accidents but idk
Edit* cause I thought I included it in the picture the price is 14,999$
The previous owner supposedly put it all on highway miles, regardless miles are miles
My wife’s grandmother passed away recently and left $20,000 each to my wife Katie and her sister Rachel. Her mom Nicole said she would follow through on that.
When it came time to actually hand over the money Nicole said she’s keeping $20,000 for herself right now and will “pay it back over time.” So instead of $20,000 each they’re both getting $10,000.
For context Nicole inherited everything else we’re talking the bulk of the estate; house, cars, furniture literally everything but the life insurance . The $40,000 was specifically set aside for the two girls. That money was going to either clear all of our debt or go toward a car we desperately need.
Nicole hasn’t had a job in a long time and has made comments about being “too good” to work somewhere like a gas station. She also went through $70,000 in 8 months and it’s completely gone that was from her divorce. So when she says she’ll pay it back she won’t. There’s no income and no track record of financial responsibility.
I want to reach out to Nicole directly but I’m in a sticky spot. No matter how I try I can’t see a way where I come out without causing some kind of argument either between me and my wife or me and my mother in law. My wife doesn’t want to fight as she’s just so done with her mother’s drama from other ongoing situations. But I also can’t just let my wife get steamrolled like this.
An outside party I talked to called it theft. I don’t know if I’d go that far but it feels really wrong.
Quick additional information the grandmother wanted it to go to them and said it verbally but never made them beneficiaries ( as far as I know) so rn now it all goes to her daughter my MiL
Looking for advice on what to do here.