My father contained by regulation requirements to steal $20,000 from our remortgage for co-signing the loan...?

When I got married my father in canon co-signed for a house for my wife and I because she was 20 and didn't have any credit and I have just come from the UK and hadn't even got my SSN but. Now 6 years later with us paying the mortgage and homeowners payments for the complete time we are looking to refinance to pull some money out to update the kitchen and bathrooms and he says he desires us to "buy him out" for $20,000 from the equity of the home. (We bought it for $69,000 and its now appraising around $120,000) We have remunerated around $40,000 in payments on the house over the 6 years and I feel close to he is being greedy trying to profit on his kids. I don't know how to approach the subject with him and my wife doesn't want a rift beside her parents over money. Her father is quite well rotten as a financial planner and makes probably $100k a year and her mom works too. Her father co-signed for her brother also but his house is in georgia and is worth smaller amount than what the paid for it so they don't have to remuneration squat if they sell it. I need some proposal on what to do about this. Its a very exquisite situation and I need to approach it correctly.
Answers:
Well, if he have never paid any of the payments - you shouldn't have to 'buy him out'. He himself have no equity in your home. He did not personally loan you money so you do not owe him anything. The wall required a co-signer just as someone to pay up if you did not payment the mortgage.
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if the father-in-law never put a dime into you getting the house, he doesn't deserve proceeds from it. He is a real shmuck for even asking for it.
I think you shouldn't mess near the house at all. Get the money some other way, and you don't own to worry about writing the schmuck a check for 20k.
All I can say is I would never do this to my kids, but to be reasonable look at it this way if he had not co-signed you would enjoy never been able to purchase the home and own that $51,000.00 in equity.

Legally I'm not sure you can sell the house lacking his signature, if this is so, he has you over a barrel.

My proposal is to talk to your lawyer and see what if any legalized obligations you have up to that time you discuss this with your father in directive.

Good luck.
Source(s): Finance Manager for over 9-years.
All he did was co-sign on the loan which mode that he was willing to guarantee that he would purloin over payments if you couldn't. He doesn't own any part of your house and has a heck of closely of cheek asking you for $20,000 to buy him out. In the USA, that's called "extortion" and would land a party in jail. Your father within law should know better.

SO, talk to your sponsor first and see if you & your wife can requalify for the loan without Dad's signature. I bet she could also answer any question just about the stunt dear old Dad is trying to pull. If you are still jumpy about this, go see a definite estate attorney and lay out the entire story. The attorney will help you set Dad straight.


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