Bigger home

My grandparents left their children a house and lot and some piece of land. The house is big and enough for the six children. There are also harvests from the piece of land. Some of the children already dies and their share has been given to the other kids or to the grandchildren like us. Our father passed away already and his sort of share is now being given to us. One of our cousins though expressed his interest in our share in the house. Well, he lives there and would like to divide the house so that he and his family will have some privacy. He has offered my youngest sister a sum of money a few years back. I wonder if we had used the money to buy gold bullion then we could even be richer by now and maybe able to buy a bigger home for ourselves. But you know, we did not take his bite.