"When you got married, besides the dowry, didn't my parents also give you the down payment for the house? But what do you mean now? Is the payment not enough?" I asked my sister-in-law in confusion.
When they got married, my parents felt that they owed my sister-in-law the matter of demolition and relocation. So, besides the dowry, they also gave an additional 500,000 dollars as the down payment for them to buy a house, which was all my parents' savings.
Later, my sister-in-law said that if they moved out, no one would take care of my parents, and they would be lonely. So they didn't buy a house and continued to live with my parents, but my parents didn't get the money back either.
In the past two years, housing prices have dropped a bit. But even if they had spent some money, it would still have been enough to make a down payment. Besides, they ate and lived at my parents' house, and there were few expenses.
"After buying the house and renovating it, the child will be born already them. However, there's so much formaldehyde in the new house, and it'll kill my baby and me!" My sister-in-law spoke to me without any politeness, and I didn't feel comfortable hearing it too.