My Inlaws Gifted Us A House And Constantly Threaten To Take It Away

My inlaws are rather wealthy and when there was a surprise pregnancy my MIL bought me and my partner a house across the street from them as a gift. They repeatedly said id pay no rent and the house would be ours.

Trouble is FIL is a narcissist who demands everyone NEEDS to rely on him or he throws tantrums and has hit my MIL in the past for disobeying him.

Given the housing market and my dire need for a home i took the offer to find out at the signing hed be putting his name on the house along with my MIL and me and my fiance were excluded entirely.

Almost immediately we were made to live in a ramshackle unfinished house he promised hed fix up for us because hes a carpenter/contractor. He still hasnt two years later.

Then came the lording that we better respect him or hed take the house away.

And now just today MIL says things are "very bad behind closed doors" and i need to pay rent. Trouble is they let me start and get involved with BSN schooling before they told me this. Like they waited until they knew i couldnt pay so id have to snivel and beg for mercy from FIL.

No renters contract was ever signed. Ive been in the house two years. I pay for literally everything (including repairs) except for taxes which im about to anyway.

I live in NJ of the USA can my FIL kick my family out? And would it take longer than two years? If i can ignore them for two years/ have the eviction take that long i can graduate and afford my own place.

Being america i assume its perfectly legal to give someone something make them dependent on you and then pull it out from under you because you dont put your recycling out consistently enough (THATS HIS REASON FOR THE RENT). I hate to sound like a baby but i need to know if im wasting my time here since its only a matter of time till he gets bored or angry and sells the house out from under us.