Rent-to-own experiences / tips?

Then just sign. We can't do more than warn... And good luck with the heir who then places his house on the property...

Why doesn't he just keep the 200m2 and sell you the rest then? That would also reduce the price and he can do whatever he wants with it. I don't understand how this construct is supposed to work otherwise?

Sometimes, if you think naively, couldn't it just be that he cares about the property and wants to see reasonable people living in it...

Of course that can be the case, but definitely not at any price, or at least at a market-appropriate value. As successors, we also want reasonable people, there were plenty of those and all were willing to pay the market value.

I therefore see it the same way as , the heirs will not give anything away.

There are certainly other reasonable people who would also be willing to pay the value once it is offered for sale.

And even reasonable people could sell it at some point and there doesn’t have to be any malicious intent behind it (job change, separation, etc. pp). and then the community of heirs would have given away money.

I think you are deluding yourselves in your hope to acquire a property and additionally perhaps even at a "cheap" price.

Do you think they have bad / evil intentions?

yes okay, I understand and admit that, but is this option of splitting the property such a big hurdle? I see a catch in it but not a big one. Do you think they have bad / evil intentions?