Trying Not To Get Involved

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I think a few months/years ago, I shared that my brother-in-law (hubby's older brother) also married a woman from the Philippines. She and I are not close despite being originally from there. For one thing, she never hid the fact that she does not want to befriend me back as I do not speak her provincial dialect. Anyway, as some of you dear Mylotters know, we moved to a different state and have put our house up for sale. Before we officially put it on the market and contracted a realtor, my in-laws were told about this whole thing. We also know that my brother in law's rental place has been sold to a new owner and so they need to move. But he's tired of renting and just wanted to buy a house. The problem is, they both have bad credit scores. He offered to buy our house for $95,000 less than it's worth - that's not even our asking since the husband did lots of improvement on the house and curb appeal. Of course, my husband said no. We also sought professional opinions from an appraiser and sure enough quoted us around the same ballpark as what we originally thought it would go for. When my husband told his brother about it, he said he cannot afford it. I thought that is the end of it. I was wrong. My sister-in-law, his wife, is also a social media "influencer" with a whopping 3,000+ followers, woohoo! As it turns out, she made a video about their house-hunting, and how they were able to find a house for them which is a 1-bedroom, 1-bath. (Makes me wonder why, as there's 3 of them). She went on to say on video that her dear viewers should not expect that it's beautiful because it's a fixer-upper, and that family members are trying to ask more money from them during the whole house-hunting saga instead of helping them, but they will prove to these family members that they can make this their home on their own terms. Now, this video was sent to me by a friend from our old place. My husband has not seen it, and I wouldn't either if nobody sent it to me. I decided not to forward the video to my husband, but I am contemplating on calling my brother-in-law and ask if he knew about the video that his wife made, and what he thinks of it. If my suspicions are correct that this is a diss to us, then I will tell him that he needs to talk to his wife to remove the video before his own brother sees it. My husband may be younger than him, but he owes him a lot - literally and figuratively. So here I am, trying not to get involved, but I am ready in case I have to. I'm too old for this drama, but I'll be darned if someone will peg us as the bad guys, albeit no names were mentioned, but come on...we run in the same circles. It will not take a genius to read between the lines.