Thanks everyone for your helpful responses. With my mom’s income and the $10,000 my uncle gave us, that is around $20,000 we had to live with for 2014 so I guess that’s why I never really thought anything about it.
And my dad did have a job before, so that’s how we saved up to buy a small house. We bought it entirely (without loans) so we wouldn’t have to pay rent and such.
I can take a picture of my CSS Profile/FAFSA if that would clear things up?