Current owner wants to rent after sale

[Kyle Soderman]

Hey All! 
Helping my brother go about a purchase of a property and we are brainstorming the best way to structure the deal. Here's the cliff-notes version of the story:

The current owner of the property is going through a divorce but also has a son (the property is across the street from the Elementary school). So the soon to be ex-husband and wife want to sell the property and take their fair shares. The wife wants to stay in the property and rent the home for a few years while the child gets through Elementary. 

Has anyone seen/dealt with a situation like this before? Any tips or recommendations when putting together an agreement?

Thanks!

[Mala S.]

@John Alosio

Just because a woman has been married it does not mean that she needs a man to take advantage of, is entitled or can’t take care of herself. Applying your one experience with a divorced woman as advice to the OP’s question is gross generalization and incredibly discriminatory.

Feel free to take notes:

1) Just because a woman is married it does not mean that she relies on her husband financially or otherwise (I know many women who know how to shovel snow). Nor does it mean it is 50-50. She may make way more than him or be the sole breadwinner.

2) just because a woman is divorced, it does not mean that she can’t afford to rent the same house she lived in while married, it does not mean she would make a terrible tenant, nor that she has bad judgement or bad character.

When in doubt, Try to put the shoe on the other foot.

What if there was a woman on this forum making gross generalizations about a divorced man? Ugh, do you feel how gross that is? There are a lot of divorced people out there. And also a lot women making good money all on their own. These types of comments are not okay.

And for the solid men out there who have respect for their females colleagues, wives, sisters and mothers:

Feel free to speak up when you read comments like this online. Don’t just let it slide by. Because us women are out there, reading this stuff, and feel shocked and maybe even a little scared about all the hate out there. It would be nice to know that there are some good people out there too.