.....although from the description of the ownership of this property, it should have been fully paid off long ago, it is obviously leveraged for all it is worth (and then some given a falling real estate market) or she wouldn't have gotten antsy about the vacancy.
I'll bet that's it.
Mom and Dad paid off the mortgages a long time ago, years or decades ago, and then daughter and son-in-law borrowed wads of money on the real-estate.
In case anyone isn't aware, the Idiot Briggs primitive lives in Michigan.
The Idiot Briggs primitive was the cause of the Great Rupture between LibraryLady and franksolich at our old home.
LibraryLady had felt sorry for the Idiot Briggs primitive, because she was going through a difficult pregnancy, from which twins emerged, as if this would forgive her stupid politics. franksolich insisted the Idiot Briggs primitive deserved all the misery she got, and more.
After that, no more nice-nice between LibraryLady and franksolich.