<prompt> Human: This might belong in TIFU. Early this year my wife and I decided to end nearly two years of traveling so that she could complete a masters program in our home state Midwestern US. We lived with my parents for a couple months while we looked for a house. Initially we planned to buy something fairly cheap 80k and sell it in 4-5 years when she is done with school. During this time my parents talked me into looking at foreclosed houses. They have bought and sold a few in the past with good results. They offered to loan us the money if we bought a house at auction in my hometown we were looking further away until we could secure a loan. Our bank was not willing to give us a loan for a foreclosure, so that was not an option. We quickly found a house that seemed like a good deal in a great neighborhood. Two weeks later we won it at auction unopposed. I will skip the almost four months of legal troubles we had when the bank claimed that the sheriff refused their bid and the previous owners refused to leave. After spending way too long living with my parents, we were now able to see inside the house for the first time. It was horrifying. Completely filled with garbage, including human shit. All three toilets didnt work, cracks and holes in every single wall, disgusting pet stained carpets from the 70s, broken doors, kitchen cabinets and counters painted black, leaking roof, cracked in-ground pool filled with garbage, and a cracked and uneven slab foundation. Seriously everything that could be messed up was messed up. For the past three months we have been pouring money into the house. Some of the rooms are finished, new roof, leveled foundation, we have a working bathroom, and partially working kitchen. I have done all of the finishing work myself so we have saved a ton, but it has still been way more expensive that we could have ever imagined. Our bank has stated that they will not give us a loan until it is completed. We have completely blown through our savings and racked up some credit card debt paying for repairs and now my parents are getting upset that we havent gotten a loan yet.In the past two months since the interior slab was leveled, many new cracks have appeared in the floors and walls. Over this past weekend I noticed one of the cracks in the wall has grown to over an inch at the top. Our house is literally separating and I can see sunlight coming through the wall. Upon closer inspection, the entire front of the house is leaning and cracking and the foundation looks to be badly damaged underneath. At this point I have no idea what to do. I am basically out of money and have a shit house and a large debt to my parents. I am sure the bank will not give us a loan without completely fixing the structural problems. I am also worried that I will never be able to sell the house with its settling problems. My parents are no help and seem to think the problems are not a big deal. They got upset last time I told them the bank wasnt willing to lend us money for the house in its current condition. Someone talk me out of burning it down.  <response>: You got bad advice to buy the house, from parents. If you buy at unseen auction, you have to factor worst case scenario and have it still make sense. The house may not even be fixable. I dont know how you got foundation slab leveling, without them figuring out why it was caused. Dont put any more money into house, until you get a good estimate of what it will really take to fix the foundation so that it can be resold later. You parents may need to loan you money to fix the foundation, which is not cheap. 