My uncle was almost ninety and still living alone in his home.
Last week, he invited me over for lunch and to have a chat.
He told me I was the only living relative he had that he could stand to talk to. I had to laugh at that, but he was serious. He said we were a lot alike, except for the fact I had a fiance and he had never even had a girlfriend. He asked if I would put an HVAC system into his house this year? I was an HVAC technician, and that was a simple request to handle for him. He told me that if I installed a good HVAC system, he would put the house in my name, and I would have a home for my family when my fiance and I got married. I wasn’t sure if he was offering to sell me the house, or give it to me. He looked at me, and then he said the house was mine when he passed. He asked that he be allowed to live here until he passed. I couldn’t imagine my uncle living anywhere else, but I also didn’t know why he insisted on having a new HVAC system installed. He said his HVAC system was almost thirty years old, and it needed a lot of upgrades. There was new ductwork to be installed, and the new HVAC equipment. He had read a lot about ductless HVAC, and that was what he wanted installed. The day I started installing the ductless HVAC system, my uncle went to the lawyer and signed the house over to me. He chuckled and reminded me I was now responsible for the cost of the new HVAC system.