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What if the heirs disagree about selling?

If heirs disagree about whether to sell an inherited home, the first step is usually a family conversation grounded in a neutral valuation, since disagreements about a house often turn out to be disagreements about a number rather than about the decision itself, and legal advice on the options typically costs $800 to $1,500.

An executor named in the will with authority to sell can typically proceed even without unanimous beneficiary agreement, provided they act in the estate's interest and account for the proceeds fairly. Where there is no such authority, or no will at all, the disagreement may need to go before the Court of King's Bench.

A buyout between the heirs is often the simplest resolution when one wants to keep the home and others want to sell: the heir keeping the property pays the others their share of a fair market value rather than forcing a sale nobody fully wants.

Whichever path the family takes, the number driving the conversation should be defensible. Joel Dyck's hand-reviewed valuation accounts for improvements the City of Saskatoon's records do not show, giving every heir the same documented figure to negotiate from.

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