Otherwise, you will likely be spending more on rent after your sell your house and may not be able to live in a home/area you want due to only being able to rent. 

Also, while you live there you are no longer spending that money to live in a similar unit, thus you have reduced your expenses by 1 unit of rental income.

Regardless, I have been spending a lot of time trying to get a pulse on the market and what types of properties would work for me once moving out there. 

There’s not a lot of ways for you to both “win”, unless you pay her what it’s worth as is, spend money on repairs and then sell it again.

So instead of a machine painting a room-a longterm solution to turn walls into screens where they are protected more from abuse and can have colors change by hitting a button.

Depending on what you find gives you more insight on if you want to spend that court money versus keeping deposits if any.

I'm not a 1031 exchange expert but have bought and sold 6 properties this way in the past 2 years (1031 exchanges)Would be glad to help how I can - can also give you some tips on what I've learned may be beneficial for estate planning as far as navigating Assisted Living/Medicaid HCBS etc - (Tip - unless you want your mother to go private pay in assisted living and drain all your money you may want to start getting assets out of her name now - guess it depends on where she'd want to live and how much you want to spend) -- Anyways we've been trying to become experts at our facility on HCBS and the different waiver programs (specifically Physically Disabled - which your brother may fall under at some point and Frail Elderly which your mother can fall under at some point)

Let's hope none of us make the mistake of spending half a million dollars on something we don't want.

If someone says i want to protect my money from inflation then you offer them 4% and they would love you ... typically they are large ones.

There is a gold mine of great information on this site and I'd urge you to spend some time reading and listening to the podcasts.